Professor @IUPsychBrain, psychology researcher studying children's math learning and motivation.
Joined August 2018
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6 Sep 2024
Calling prospective PhD students! The @IUPsychBrain PhD application deadline is Dec. 1st.
I’m looking for students interested in math cognition, academic motivation, and parent influences.
Lab: cognitionandlearning.lab.ind…
Program: psych.indiana.edu/graduate/h…
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Highlights from @_TIANJing and @Ren_Kexin's study of verbalizing decimals: bold.expert/whats-the-best-w…
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21 Mar 2024
**Job alert!** Full-time lab manager position in my lab
@IUPsychBrain. Projects focus on spatial and numerical skills & motivation, and the role of parent-child interactions. Apply here: hrms.indiana.edu/psp/PH1PRD_…
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20 Mar 2024
Check out my lab's recent work at #CDS2024!
ALT Cognition & Learning Lab @ CDS Friday 3/22, Poster Session 2 (5:45-7pm) All tied up: Developing the knot reasoning task, a novel measure of non-rigid spatial thinking (P2-18) Bennett-Pierre, Shipley, Newcombe & Gunderson How does mental rotation training affect calculation skills? The role of state anxiety and calculation type (P2-131) Zhang & Gunderson Using books to improve mental rotation skills in 4- and 5-year-old children (P2-159) Tavassolie, Sylverne, D’Antonio, Newcombe, Weinraub, & Gunderson Saturday 3/23, Poster Session 3 (1:15-2:30pm) Children’s motivational beliefs in math, verbal, and spatial domains: relations to gender, grade level, and achievement (P3-38) Tian, Camarote, & Gunderson
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10 Jan 2024
I am hiring a postdoc to start this summer in my lab
@IUPsychBrain, on an NSF-funded project on preschoolers’ flexible attention to magnitudes (intersection of numerical cognition and executive function). Apps can be submitted here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/post…. Please share!
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3 Nov 2023
I am excited to be recruiting new PhD students to Indiana University @IUPsychBrain to study preschool numeracy, math language, executive functioning, spatial skills, beliefs about effort, and more. Prospective students, please reach out if you are interested!
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18 Aug 2023
**Job alert!** Full-time lab manager and postdoc positions in my lab @IUPsychBrain. Positions are NSF-funded and focus on preschoolers’ flexible attention to magnitudes. Lab managers: hrms.indiana.edu/psp/PH1PRD_…. Postdocs: indiana.peopleadmin.com/post…. Please share!
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4 Aug 2023
Some news – I just started a new position as a Professor at @IUBloomington! @Temple_Psych has been a great intellectual home for the past 10 years, and I am excited for new opportunities at @IUPsychBrain. I will be hiring a lab manager and postdoc ASAP – stay tuned.
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Come see our posters at #mcls2023! Session 1 today at 1pm: @_TIANJing on a home spatial play intervention (poster #3) and @NadiaTavassolie on a preschool mental rotation book reading study (#11). Session 3 tomorrow: Xinhe Zhang on magnitude cues and number line estimation (#14).
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3 May 2023
How do you say “0.68”? Does it matter for learning? We taught 5th & 6th graders to use either decomposed labels (six tenths and eight hundredths), common-unit labels (sixty-eight hundredths), or point labels (point six eight).
@_TIANJing @Ren_Kexin doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.202… (1/x)
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... and reduced incorrect reliance on the hundredths digit for comparisons (e.g., incorrectly saying that 0.39 is more than 0.74 because 9 is greater than 4). (4/x)
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Overall, the results highlight the importance of language in math learning, and suggest that decomposed labels and common-unit labels may be beneficial for teaching different aspects of decimal magnitude knowledge.
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23 Mar 2023
New paper! @GraceBennettPi and I review how knitting, crochet, and other fiber arts relate to spatial skills, gender, and motivation. link.springer.com/article/10…
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ALT yarn, knitting needles, and knitted fabric in multiple colors
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We suggest that engaging in fiber arts might be an effective means of improving spatial skills. This is notable because fiber arts are stereotypically feminine, in contrast to the male-gender-typing of many spatial activities like block and Lego construction. (3/4)
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Finally, fiber arts are typically intrinsically motivating, and may encourage viewing failure as an opportunity for learning. Altogether, this can open new avenues into our understanding of spatial cognition and interventions to enhance spatial skills and motivation! (4/4)
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New paper from our lab! Spatial skills in 4th grade longitudinally predict students' STEM major choice and help explain gender differences. Math self-concept is a major mediator. @_TIANJing led the study and explains it better than I could below. doi.org/10.1111/desc.13302
19 Apr 2022
Despite the tremendous progress women have made in education and the workforce over the past 50 years, men continue to dominate STEM domains. Why do fewer women than men pursue STEM fields in college and beyond?
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Elizabeth Gunderson retweeted
8 Sep 2022
I am hiring a postdoc for an international collaboration on preschool numeracy! We'll start reviewing applications Nov. 1st. Start date flexible (up to summer 2023). More details below 👇
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