Paul T. Cirino

Professor
Director of Developmental Neuropsychology Lab
Clinical Psychology
Ph.D., 91ÁÔÆæ
Health 1, Room 480
832-842-2002
pcirino@uh.edu
Paul Cirino CV
Dr. Cirino will be reviewing graduate student applications for the 2026-2027 academic year. Application deadline is Dec 1, 2025. Please see Student Admissions, Outcomes, and Other Data for details.
Research Interests
- Developmental Neuropsychology
- Math and Reading Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
- Attention, Executive Function, and Domain General Abilities
- Design, Measurement, and Methodology
Teaching
- PSYC 7338: Cognitive Disorders and Lifespan Neuropsychology: II (graduate)
- PSYC 6356: Clinical Assessment I (graduate)
- PSYC 6357: Clinical Assessment II (graduate)
- PSYC 3301: Introduction to Psychological Statistics (undergraduate)
- PSYC 1300: Introduction to Psychology (undergraduate)
Selected Publications (past 3 years)
*DNL Student Lab Member
- *Halverson, K.K., Bick, J., Medina, L., McKinney, L., & Cirino, P.T. (in press, 2025). Impact of acculturation on math achievement in community college students. Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
- Krause, C.A., Escamilla, K.J., Hyland, M.T., Gonzalez, A.S., Woods, S.P., Cirino, P.T., Williams, M.W., & Medina, L.D. (in press, 2025). An initial review of doctoral clinical neuropsychology coursework syllabi: Common trends and core Competencies. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.
- *Salentine, C. M., Bick, J., Woods, S. P., & Cirino, P. T. (in press, 2025). Overlapping cognitive predictors for writing and math achievement. Child Neuropsychology.
- *Farrell, A., Cirino, P.T., Barnes, M.A., & Woods, S.P. (in press, 2025). Interactions of decoding, working memory, and mind wandering on reading comprehension. Reading Psychology.
- Bradley, K.A., Fletcher, J.M., Juranek, J.J., Hannay, H.J., Cirino, P.T., & Kramer, L.A. (2024). Corpus callosum structure and auditory interhemispheric transfer in spina bifida myelomeningocele. Neuropsychology, 38(8), 687.
- Calamia, M., Ready, R.E., Kapoulea, E.A., *Farrell, A., Runk, A., Babicz-Boston, M.A., Woods, S.P., & Cirino, P.T. (2024). A survey of the perceptions and practices of faculty in clinical neuropsychology doctoral training programs: Is heterogeneity the norm? The Clinical Neuropsychologist.
- Cirino, P.T., *Salentine, C., *Farrell, A.E., Barnes, M.A., & Roberts, G. (2024). Cognitive predictors of the overlap of reading and math in middle school. Learning and Individual Differences.
- Cirino, P.T., *Farrell, A.E., Barnes, M.A., & Roberts, G.J. (2023). An evaluation of the structure of attention in adolescence. Developmental Neuropsychology, 48(4), 162-185.
- Cirino, P.T. (2023). Framing executive function as a construct, and its relation to academic achievement. Mind, Brain, and Education, 17(4), 226-237.
- Cirino, P.T. (2022). Math Disabilities. In M. Beauchamp, R. Peterson, D. Ris, G. Taylor, & K. Yeates (Eds.), Pediatric Neuropsychology, 3rd Edition (Chapter 13). Guilford Press: New York (pp. 279-299).
- Cirino, P.T., Tolar, T.D., & Fuchs, L.S. (2022). Domain general and specific contributions to algebra: A sequenced longitudinal path model. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 68, 102026.
- Cirino, P.T., Barnes, M.A., Roberts, G., Miciak, J., & *Gioia, A. (2022). Visual attention and reading: A test of their relation across paradigms. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214, 105289.