Numerical Cognition Laboratory

Stephan has won the Department of Psychology’s G. Keith Humphrey Memorial Award. The description of the award is as follows: “This award is for the graduate student in Psychology or Neuroscience who best exemplifies the philosophy and spirit of Professor Humphrey and his research. Keith was a brilliant young scholar who admired true intellectual curiosity and possessed a love of visual science. This Award is chosen annually by the Graduate Selection Committee in  the
Department of Psychology.”

Congratulations Stephan!

Daniel Ansari participated in the ‘Neuroscientists Talk Shop’ podcast with faculty members of the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Neurobiology Program. You can listen to the conversation here:
http://snrp.utsa.edu/Podcast/Entries/2013/4/25_Daniel_Ansari_PhD.html

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2013/01/little_numbers_add_up_to_big_d.html

http://blog.brainfacts.org/2013/01/high-school-numbers-and-the-brain/#.UPWvsaXL5ho

http://www.educationnews.org/k-12-schools/student-testing-success-linked-to-grasp-of-basic-math/

http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2012/November/postdoc_explores_roots_of_math_in_brain.html

Anna Matejko who defended her MSc thesis in August has bee awarded the Leola E. Neal Memorial Award. The Leola E. Neal Award is given each fall by the Western Psychology Graduate Program for the most outstanding Master’s thesis in any of the following subject areas: clinical, developmental, education, industrial/organizational, measurement, personality, or social psychology. Congratulations Anna!

Daniel Ansari’s Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience has been renewed for another 5 years: http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2012/October/two_new_crcs_named_eight_renewed.html

Dr. Ian Lyons has rejoined the Numerical Cognition Laboratory. He originally joined the lab in 2005 when it was located at Dartmouth as a Research Associate. He then went onto complete his PhD at the University of Chicago in Dr. Sian Beilock’s lab. He has now returned as a Postdoctoral Fellow!

Ian Holloway successfully defended his PhD thesis in August 2012 – Many congratulations Ian!!

Gavin Price has left the Numerical Cognition Laboratory after a very productive 3-year post-doc to start a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in Educational Neuroscience in the Department of Human Development and Psychology at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. We congratulate Professor Price on his new position and wish him the best of luck!

Anna Matejko wins 2012 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Congratulations Anna!!  See news item at: http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2012/July/western_boasts_eight_vanier_winners.html

Anna Matejko and Daniel Ansari receive an internal research grant from the Children’s Health Research Institute (CHRI) to run Ipad number training studies with preschoolers!

Celia Goffin wins the 2012 McClelland Award for the best 4th year undergraduate thesis in Psychology at Western! Celia’s thesis was co-supervised by Stephan Vogel and Daniel Ansari. Congratulations Celia!

Our NSERC Discovery Operating Grant has been renewed for another 5 years!

Graduate Student Stephanie Bugden has won the 2011 McClelland Award in Psychology. This is an internal award for outstanding graduate
students in either the Western Graduate Program in Developmental or
Clinical Psychology. Congratulations Stephanie!

Graduate student Nadia Nosworthy wins Ontario Government’s Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology.
Congratulations Nadia!

Finding the Prime Factors in Number Processing Deficits

describing the ongoing collaboration between the World Bank’s Education For All, Fast Track Initiative and the Numerical Cognition Laboratory

Article about Math Anxiety and its implications

Stephanie Bugden, Anna Matejko and  Stephan Vogel win Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Congratulations to PhD Student Christian Battista for being awarded a National Sciences and Research Council’s (NSERC) Doctoral (PGS-D) scholarship!

Article about dyscalculia (in German)

Article on Numerical Cognition Laboratory Research: “Why things just don’t add up for some students.”

- Daniel Ansari has been elected as a  Member of the Board of Directors of the “International, Mind, Brain and Education Society” (IMBES).

Postdoctoral Fellow Gavin Price has been selected as the recipient of the 2010-2011 C Kingsley Allison Research Award from the Developmental Disabilities Division of the University of Western Ontario.

This award will support, Dr Price’s research project entitled: “Understanding Developmental Dyscalculia : The Neural Correlates of Calculation Learning”.

Congratulations Gavin!

Article in Newsweek about Creativity that refers to fMRI studies of Musical Improvisation by Aaron Berkowitz and Daniel Ansari

Graduate Student Ian Holloway has won the 2009 McClelland Award in Psychology. This is an internal award for outstanding graduate students in either the Graduate Program in Developmental or Clinical Psychology. Congratulations Ian!

Research from the Numerical Cognition Laboratory on Developmental Dyscalculia featured in the Fall Edition of ‘Parents Canada’.

Research by Aaron Berkowitz & Daniel Ansari mentioned in a New Yorker article on classical improvisation.

Daniel Ansari & Bert De Smedt have founded a new Special Interest Group of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction: SIG 22: Education and Neuroscience. See the website for more information:

http://www.earli.org/special_interest_groups/22._Neuroscience_and_Education

Post-doctoral fellow Gavin Price, PhD wins Post-doctoral fellowship from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation: Congratulations Gavin!

Graduate Student Ian Holloway wins prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship! Congratulations Ian!

More on music improvisation and the brain

Report on music improvisation project run in collaboration with Aaron Berkowitz

Article on Developmental Dyscalculia that refers to our work

Article reporting on presentation delivered by Daniel Ansari at the Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington DC in November 2008

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