Elia Soto, Assistant Professor
Office: 209 Audubon Hall
Department of Psychology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Email: esoto@lsu.edu
Dr. Soto will be accepting students for Fall 2025.
Research Interests
Dr. Soto’s research focuses on two overarching goals to ultimately inform diagnostic and intervention efforts for neurodevelopmental disorders: a) refine executive dysfunction assessment in children using multimodal and multi-level analysis assessment methodologies and b) identify unique executive function profiles within ADHD, Autism, and co-occurring ADHD and Autism. To obtain these goals, Dr. Soto’s work takes an interdisciplinary approach and combines neural (event-related potentials: ERPs), behavioral (reaction times, accuracy), cognitive (e.g., IQ testing) and clinical (e.g., diagnostic assessments, parent- and self-reports) measurements and examines executive function components subserving important functional outcomes across childhood and adolescence among typically developing children and children with ADHD, autism, and co-occurring ADHD and autism.
Education
- Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Florida State University
- M.S., Clinical Psychology, Florida State University
- B.S., Biochemistry, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- B.S., Psychology, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Representative Publications
Soto, E.F., Black, K., & Kofler, M.J. (In press). Is hyperactivity in children with ADHD a functional
response to demands on specific executive functions or cognitive demands in general?.
Neuropsychology.
Kofler, M.J., Soto, E.F., Singh, L.J., Harmon, S.L., Jaisle, E., Smith, J.N., Feeney, K.E., & Musser, E.D.
(In press). Executive function deficits in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
and autism spectrum disorder. Nature Reviews Psychology.
Soto, E. F., Orantes, D., Russo, N., & Antshel, K. M. (2024). Autism and sexual and gender minority
identity in college students: Examination of self-reported rates, functional outcomes,
and treatment engagement. Autism, 50(6), 1519-1539. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613241236228.
Groves, N.B., Wells, E.L., Soto, E.F., Marsh, C.L., Jaisle, E.M., Harvey, T.K., & Kofler, M.J. (2022). Executive functioning
and emotion regulation in children with and without ADHD. Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 50(6), 721-735. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00883-0
Soto, E.F., Irwin, L.N., Chan, E.S.M., Spiegel, J.A., & Kofler, M.J. (2021). Executive functions
and writing skills in children with and without ADHD. Neuropsychology, 35(8), 792. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000769