Dr Flavia H Santos

Andrew R. A. Conway

Michael J. Kane

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

Congrats to Dr. Robin Sharma!

He defended his dissertation on “Designing and Testing the Effectiveness of Digital Games to Develop Adolescents’ Understanding of Mathematics."

His work with UNESCO, Ubisoft, and Vretta leads the way in game-based learning!!

tlclab.owlstown.net/posts/4776-d...

@starlingalves.bsky.social Meta-analysis on digital maths tools for K-12 students with Developmental Dyscalculia!☘️

TLC Lab - New Article Alert: Alam, Gao, & Dubé Publish a Systematic We’re thrilled to share that our latest article, “A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Digital Mathematics Interventions for K-12 Students with Mathemati...

Our new meta-analysis by Sabrina Shajeen Alam, Jie Gao, reviews 24 studies on digital math tools for K–12 students with math learning disabilities.

Results show where digital tools help—and where big evidence gaps remain.

tlclab.owlstown.net/posts/4749-n...

Also the deadline for Teach@Tuebingen fellowships is approaching soon (20.11.25). It offers a nice and decently paid opportunity to come to a lab in Tuebingen and research and teach here for a half or whole year. Contact me if you want to work with us.

uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

Headed by our wonderful PostDoc Maristella Lunardon in cooperation with Christina Artemenko, @serenarossi.bsky.social and @krzysztofcipora.bsky.social we observed that math attitudes were more important for university choice than math anxiety.

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Congrats, @shanewriter.bsky.social awesome news!!!☘️

Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer... Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...

HUGE multi-lab study (including ours!) looking at whether musicians have better short-term memory than non-musicians across different domains (musical, verbal, and visuospatial memory). Congratulations to all 110 collaborators worldwide!
#musicpsych #psychscisky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Western Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

Looking for a post-doc? Apply for the Western Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at Western University @westernu.bsky.social in Canada🇨🇦. Comes with a competitive salary and a research stipend: www.uwo.ca/research/fun...

Spatial thinking in the STEM classroom Zachary Hawes studies how spatial thinking makes abstract ideas accessible

“Spatial thinking is a fundamental, yet often neglected, aspect of human cognition.”
@zackhawes.bsky.social tells Aisha Schnellmann how central spatial thinking is to STEM learning. #EdChat boldscience.org/the-psycholo...

New paper on the nature of order processing deficits in developmental dyscalculia! 💙

Shared first-authorship w/ Dr. Natalia Dubinkina!

Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

YouTube video by UCD Psychology Facing a fear of maths - learning strategies to deal with maths anxiety for kids

Maths Anxiety Day!☘️

#ArithmosProject funded by @researchireland.ie, led by
@ucddublin.bsky.social & Technological University Dublin

#cogsci #neuro #MathEd #EdTech #dyscalculia

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youtu.be/miW8S9VXTow

🧠✨ Genetic Tools Atlas 3.0 is here!

The GTA now has an additional 750 datasets, including 80+ mouse whole-brain light sheet microscopy images as well as the first macaque datasets.

🔗 https://portal.brain-map.org/genetic-tools/genetic-tools-atlas

#neuroskyence

front page of the article, journal, title, authors, URL. Effects on nonverbal numerical acuity performance after a single-session transient random noise stimulation over the intraparietal sulcus or dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

Hello #tRNS lovers: 🧠

Ó Dúinín, E., Steopan J., Kessler, K., Santos, FH. Sci Rep 15, 37977 (2025)

🎯 rdcu.be/eNuQT

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Sponsored by @ucddublin.bsky.social
Ad Astra

The SNARC effect may work only with symbolic numbers. It seems to work with nonsymbolic numbers when the task requires symbolic responses, such as "smaller"-"larger", but not without them. doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... or www.thenumberworks.org/discrete_sem...

This is the first in a series of constructive critiques of integral philosophy that examines the blind spots of developmental psychology. Watch my full presentation and Q&A here: t.co/Jc11vN0T4g

📢 The submission phase for talks & posters at #TeaP2026 starts on October 27! 🎉 Submit your contribution by November 16: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼 Present in a symposium, mixed-topics session, early-career session, or poster session 😍

One and only SNARC? Spatial-Numerical Associations are not fully flexible and depend on both relative and absolute number magnitude | Royal Society Open Science Numbers are associated with space, but it is unclear how flexible these associations are. We investigated whether the SNARC effect (Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes; Dehaene et al. 1993...

Does SNARC only depend on relative number magnitude? Not necessarily! Our new Registered Report led by wonderful @lillyroth.bsky.social in collaboration with @tuebang.bsky.social, U.-D. Reips, J. Caffier, and A. Overlander
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Hello #MCLS2026, Padua, Italy! 🇮🇹

This is the moment to find international researchers to compose your #symposium. The call for submissions will open in November!

🎯 Registration will open by mid-January.

Check @mcls-official.bsky.social and @mclstrainee.bsky.social for updates.

<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library This study, involving 120 children (Mage = 4.25; SD = 0.83; 53% Female, 49% White, 23% multiracial, 16% Black, 9% Asian American, and 3% Latine) and their parents, examined parent talk constructs and....

Sharing my recent pub with the bsky community! The Factor Structure of Parents' Math-Related Talk and Its Relation to Children's Early Academic Skills doi.org/10.1111/cdev...

TLC @ McGill University - Call For Chapter Proposals PDF file Thinking Numbers, Thinking Machines: Mathematical Learning and Cognition in the GenAI Age Editors: Adam Dubé (McGill), Katherine M. Robinson (Regi...

📣 CFP: Thinking Numbers, Thinking Machines

How does GenAI affect K-12 math learning/teaching?

We want chapters linking psych ↔️ education—cognition, pedagogy, equity, neuro, games, tutors+.

Repost. & Share!

EOI due Nov 15, 2025
See the full call here: bit.ly/3V5Rwtl
#AIinEducation #MathEd

Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The base concept in number systems is realized differently across multiple representational modalities—frameworks that incorporate sensory channel, medium of expression and semantic structures into integrated semiotic systems. Because these three factors ...

My paper "Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities" (PhilTransB) addresses a whole class of questions around the role that semiotic modality, and specifically number words vs. number symbols, plays in the structure of numerical systems.

Learning a Novel Number System: The Role of Compositional Rules and Counting Procedures Humans count to indefinitely large numbers by recycling words from a finite list, and combining them using rules—for example, combining sixty with unit labels to generate sixty-one, sixty-two, and so...

Fun new paper led by Sebastian Holt, training adults on artificial number systems. Most work tests only base-10 learning; we trained adults on a range of base systems & manipulated whether numbers were learned as part of a counting system, or unordered words. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A sunset photo of Padua, Italy, depicting a panoramic view of the city reflected in the Bacchiglione River. In addition, the image includes dates, logos and conference location for 2026.

Hello #MCLS2026 !☘️

We are delighted to announce the dates for our upcoming conference in Padua, Italy! 🇮🇹

Thanks to the local organisers at Università di Padova
S. Caviola, R. Rugani, M. Ranzini, and others
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If you like non-significant findings, you will LOVE our latest order processing paper!

We tested whether presenting consecutive & non-consecutive sequences separately improves order verification performance & found ✨no effect whatsoever✨.

doi/10.1177/17470218231220912

#DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci

My favourite order processing paper from my PhD was just published in Cognitive Science. ENJOY 💙

w/ K. Moeller, I. Xenidou-Dervou, B. Reynvoet, and F. Sella.

Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper with some colleagues.

Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Flyer with images of the Washington State University and University at Albany logos, followed by the following text: Dear Colleagues, We (Dr. Mary DePascale, University at Albany, SUNY; Dr. Nicole Scalise, Washington State University) are currently conducting a meta-analysis on the effectiveness of early math interventions. We are currently requesting unpublished data on this topic to include in our meta-analysis. Specifically, we are looking for datasets that include: 1. Child participants (preschool age; ages 3 to 6 years) 2. An early math intervention (not including curricula) 3. A control or comparison group 4. At least one child math outcome collected after the intervention (e.g., posttest data) If you are willing to share your data or have questions about whether your data fits these criteria, please email us directly (mdepascale@albany.edu, nicole.scalise@wsu.edu) by November 9, 2025. Thank you! Dr. Mary DePascale & Dr. Nicole Scalise

✨Request for unpublished data✨ Meta-analysis on early (age 3 to 6 years) math interventions. Please reach out to me (Mary DePascale) or Nicole Scalise by November 9 if you are willing to share your data!

article cover including publisher, DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02179-0, authors and title

Delighted to share the first article of Dr Sophie Leonard's doctoral thesis. We thank reviewers & editors of this exciting special issue for their great support! ☘️

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🧠 Looking to expand your #NeuroscienceCareer across borders?

The #FENS / #IBRO–PERC #ExchangeFellowships offer hands-on training opportunities in leading labs throughout Europe. 🌐

🗓️ Deadline: 15 October 2025
👉 https://loom.ly/DhYSWlQ

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