Department of Psychology
Current projects
The foundations of understanding fractions and decimal numbers (Numer8ED.2)
Tracking the development of rational number skills in secondary school (from Year 7 to 9) and identifying causal factors predicting proficiency with rational numbers
Boundary conditions of conceptual spaces (BounCeS)
Using numbers as a starting point to investigate the topographic structure of conceptual knowledge representations
Past projects
Longitudinal predictors of mathematical development in primary school (Numer8ED)
Tracking the development of basic number skills and its relationship to mathematical development from year 1 to year 3 in primary school.
Cross-linguistic differences in number processing and arithmetic
How the structure of number words in different languages affects numerical cognition.
The relationship between mathematics anxiety and working memory in adults and secondary school children.