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Overview

Daniel Ansari is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and mathematics, with a notable focus on the intersections between cognitive processes and numerical cognition.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Mathematics

Within these disciplines, Ansari's work delves into several subfields, such as:

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Education
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Ansari's research topics cover diverse themes, including:

  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Disentangling the individual and contextual effects of math anxiety: A global perspective" (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample" (2022), Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Registered Replication Report on Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003)" (2020), Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "The neural correlates of retrieval and procedural strategies in mental arithmetic: A functional neuroimaging meta-analysis" (2022), Human Brain Mapping
  • "Domain-general and domain-specific influences on emerging numerical cognition: Contrasting uni-and bidirectional prediction models" (2021), Cognition

Frequent publication venues for Ansari include:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Cognition
  • Developmental Psychology

Some frequent coauthors collaborating with Ansari are:

  • Nathan T. T. Lau
  • H. Moriah Sokolowski
  • L. Peters
  • Eric D. Wilkey
  • Ian M. Lyons

Best Publications

  • Effects of development and enculturation on number representation in the brain

    Daniel Ansari

  • Mapping numerical magnitudes onto symbols: the numerical distance effect and individual differences in children's mathematics achievement.

    Ian D. Holloway;Daniel Ansari

  • How do symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude processing skills relate to individual differences in children's mathematical skills? A review of evidence from brain and behavior

    Bert De Smedt;Marie-Pascale Noel;Camilla K. Gilmore;Daniel Ansari

  • Bridges over troubled waters: education and cognitive neuroscience

    Daniel Ansari;Donna Coch

  • Using developmental trajectories to understand developmental disorders.

    Michael S. C. Thomas;Dagmara Annaz;Daniel Ansari;Gaia Scerif

  • Impaired parietal magnitude processing in developmental dyscalculia

    Gavin R. Price;Ian Holloway;Pekka Räsänen;Manu Vesterinen

  • To retrieve or to calculate? Left angular gyrus mediates the retrieval of arithmetic facts during problem solving

    Roland H. Grabner;Daniel Ansari;Karl Koschutnig;Gernot Reishofer

  • Neural correlates of symbolic number processing in children and adults.

    Daniel Ansari;Nicolas Garcia;Elizabeth Lucas;Kathleen Hamon

  • Closing the achievement gap through modification of neurocognitive and neuroendocrine function: results from a cluster randomized controlled trial of an innovative approach to the education of children in kindergarten.

    Clancy Blair;C. Cybele Raver

  • Numerical predictors of arithmetic success in grades 1–6

    Ian M. Lyons;Gavin R. Price;Anniek Vaessen;Leo Blomert

  • Individual differences in mathematical competence predict parietal brain activation during mental calculation

    Roland H. Grabner;Daniel Ansari;Gernot Reishofer;Elsbeth Stern

  • Age-related Changes in the Activation of the Intraparietal Sulcus during Nonsymbolic Magnitude Processing: An Event-related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Daniel Ansari;Bibek Dhital

  • Atypical development of language and social communication in toddlers with Williams syndrome

    Emma Laing;George Butterworth;Daniel Ansari;Marisa Gsödl

  • How is phonological processing related to individual differences in children's arithmetic skills?

    Bert De Smedt;Jessica Taylor;Lisa Archibald;Daniel Ansari

  • Atypical trajectories of number development: a neuroconstructivist perspective

    Daniel Ansari;Annette Karmiloff-Smith

  • Neuroeducation – A Critical Overview of An Emerging Field

    Daniel Ansari;Bert De Smedt;Roland H. Grabner

  • Nonsymbolic numerical magnitude comparison: reliability and validity of different task variants and outcome measures, and their relationship to arithmetic achievement in adults.

    Gavin R. Price;Daniel Palmer;Christian Battista;Daniel Ansari

  • Generation of novel motor sequences: the neural correlates of musical improvisation.

    Aaron L. Berkowitz;Daniel Ansari;Daniel Ansari

  • Mathematics anxiety affects counting but not subitizing during visual enumeration

    Erin A. Maloney;Evan F. Risko;Daniel Ansari;Jonathan Fugelsang

  • Annual Research Review: Educational neuroscience: progress and prospects.

    Michael S. C. Thomas;Daniel Ansari;Victoria C. P. Knowland

  • What makes counting count? Verbal and visuo-spatial contributions to typical and atypical number development.

    Daniel Ansari;Chris Donlan;Michael S.C. Thomas;Sandra A. Ewing

Frequent Co-Authors

Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Annette Karmiloff-Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Roland H. Grabner
Roland H. Grabner University of Graz
Bert De Smedt
Bert De Smedt KU Leuven
Michael S.C. Thomas
Michael S.C. Thomas Birkbeck, University of London
Michael W. L. Chee
Michael W. L. Chee National University of Singapore
Gaia Scerif
Gaia Scerif University of Oxford
Jonathan A. Fugelsang
Jonathan A. Fugelsang University of Waterloo
Wim Fias
Wim Fias Ghent University
Christa Neuper
Christa Neuper University of Graz

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