Sarah Pila

Biographic Data

ID6876546
NAMESarah Pila
GIVEN NAMESSarah
FAMILY NAMEPila
SIGNATUREPILA S
AFFILIATIONSNorthwestern University
ORCID0000-0002-8070-5929
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • A scoping review of emotion and non-cognitive measures of decision-making ability in older adults by the ARMCADA study

    Open AccessElizabeth M Dworak, Sarah Pila et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Introduction: Decision-making is a complex form of cognitive function that declines with age and is highly susceptible to impairment from dementia due to Alzheimer's and related neurogenerative diseases. Emotions and other non-cognitive assets are also believed to influence decision-making ability. The Advancing Reliable Measurement in Cognitive Aging and Decision-making Ability (ARMCADA) research initiative seeks to understand how measures of em…

  • Measures of healthcare decision-making ability in cognitive aging

    Open AccessMolly A Mather, Berivan Ece et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Declines in decision-making (DM) ability are often observed with increasing age and pose significant risk for negative health, financial, and functional outcomes. The Advancing Reliable Measurement in Cognitive Aging and Decision-making Ability (ARMCADA) research initiative aims to improve measurement of DM ability in aging to facilitate early detection of cognitive and functional decline. This scoping review summarizes the extant l…

  • Preschool teachers’ perspectives on (haptic) technology in the classroom

    Open AccessSarah Pila, Alexis R Lauricella et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2022

    One particularly exciting platform with the potential to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in early childhood classrooms is the tablet. However, one challenge in using these devices for STEM learning is that traditional tablets lack important sensory information. The emerging technology of haptic (or tactile) feedback touch-screen displays might reduce this barrier. In order to better understand pre-school teachers’ attitude…

  • Young children's social and independent behavior during play with a coding app

    Open AccessMaya Lennon, Sarah Pila et al.ARTICLEComputers & Education2022

  • The power of parent attitudes

    Open AccessSarah Pila, Alexis R Lauricella et al.ARTICLEHuman Behavior and Emerging…2021

    Mobile technology devices continue to develop and change, creating increased opportunity for use by children. However, parents remain wary of screen time and question the benefits of using these devices for teaching specific content (e.g., science, technology, engineering, and math—STEM). Parent attitudes can play a very powerful role in children's media use and these attitudes may be even more impactful with emerging or novel technologies. As su…

  • Using short message (SMS) and multimedia messaging (MMS) to encourage positive parent–child engagement around literacy and language development

    Open AccessSarah Pila, Alexis R Lauricella et al.ARTICLEMobile Media & Communication2018Cited by: 2References: 6

    Research on language development suggests that children from low-income families hear nearly 30 million words less than their higher income counterparts (Hart & Risley, 1999). This paper explores parent perceptions and attitudes toward two mobile interventions (Text4baby and Univision Contigo) designed to support parents’ engagement with their young children as a way of reducing the language gap and improving child outcomes. We conducted eight fo…