Ed will be heading to Philadelphia to speak at Temple University in their Temple Institute for Learning & Education Sciences series next Wednesday, April 13. He will be speaking about Understanding Fractions: A Case Study in Educational Neuroscience.
The Ed Neuro Lab is at CNS
The Educational Neuroscience Lab is sending a party of three (Liz, Radhika and Zac) to the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting in the Big Apple!
We will be presenting three posters on our work, and Radhika will also present as a data blitz talk:
Data Blitz Session 1 (Saturday 2:54 – 3:00 pm) Talk 5: Decoding Grapheme-Color Synesthesia Using Multivariate Pattern Analysis*
Radhika Gosavi, Emma Meyering, Nathan Rose, Bradley Postle & Edward Hubbard
* The Data Blitz talk is also part of the Graduate Student Award (GSA) Radhika received from CNS
B32 (Sunday 8:00-10:00 am) An ALE Meta-analysis of Facial Processing in Autism
Zachary Grulke & Edward Hubbard
D173 (Monday 8:00-10:00 am) Individual Differences in Spatial Representations of Fractions Relate to Formal Math Achievement
Elizabeth Y. Toomarian & Edward M. Hubbard
F151 (Tuesday 8:00-10:00 am) Decoding Grapheme-Color Synesthesia Using Multivariate Pattern Analysis
Radhika Gosavi, Emma Meyering, Nathan Rose, Bradley Postle & Edward Hubbard
Please stop by and check out the latest work from the lab!
Radhika Awarded NSF Honorable Mention
Congratulations to our second year PhD student, Radhika Gosavi, for her Honorable Mention in the 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program for her application to study the neural correlates of synesthesia! Radhika’s Honorable Mention was one of only 38 nationwide in the Cognitive Neuroscience area.
Liz Defends Master’s Thesis
Congratulations to our third year PhD student, Liz Toomarian, who successfully defended her Master’s Thesis, The Spatial Representations of Fractions on the Mental Number Line. Liz’s work includes a series of behavioral studies examining the mental representation of fractions on the mental number line, and a large study of individual differences in fraction processing. Parts of this work have been presented at conferences including CNS and AERA, and submitted for publication.
New Media Coverage of Our Psych. Science article
Our new Psychological Science article, Individual Differences in Nonsymbolic Ratio Processing Predict Symbolic Math Performance, has been getting a fair bit of media coverage, including press releases from the American Psychological Society (APS) which publishes Psych. Science, our own School of Education, and even Jonathan Wai’s excellent blog over at Psychology Today.
APS: Basic Ratio Capacity May Serve as Building Block for Math Knowledge
UW-Madison SOE: Abstract math concepts may be grounded in basic non-symbolic processing abilities
Psychology Today: Do Humans Have A Basic Capacity To Understand Fractions?