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Elizabeth M. Brannon is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, with a particular emphasis on mathematics education and teaching techniques.

The main fields of study in which they have published include:

  • Mathematics
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of study include:

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Education
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Applied Mathematics

Their work covers a range of topics such as:

  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Mathematics Education and Pedagogy
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function

Elizabeth M. Brannon has published multiple recent papers, including:

  • "Number sense biases children's area judgments" (2020) in Cognition
  • "Failure to replicate the benefit of approximate arithmetic training for symbolic arithmetic fluency in adults" (2020) in Cognition
  • "Similarly oriented objects appear more numerous" (2020) in Journal of Vision
  • "Approximate arithmetic training does not improve symbolic math in third and fourth grade children" (2021) in Trends in Neuroscience and Education
  • "First and Second Graders Successfully Reason About Ratios With Both Dot Arrays and Arabic Numerals" (2021) in Child Development

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Cognition
  • Journal of Vision
  • Trends in Neuroscience and Education
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Harvard Dataverse

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors in their research, including:

  • Chuyan Qu
  • Sami R. Yousif
  • Sam Clarke
  • Nicholas K. DeWind
  • Emily Szkudlarek

Best Publications

  • Functional Imaging of Numerical Processing in Adults and 4-y-Old Children

    Jessica F Cantlon;Elizabeth M Brannon;Elizabeth J Carter;Kevin A Pelphrey

  • Ordering of the Numerosities 1 to 9 by Monkeys

    Elizabeth M. Brannon;Herbert S. Terrace

  • The evolution of self-control

    Evan L. MacLean;Brian Hare;Charles L. Nunn;Elsa Addessi

  • Shared system for ordering small and large numbers in monkeys and humans.

    Jessica F. Cantlon;Elizabeth M. Brannon

  • Beyond the Number Domain

    Jessica F. Cantlon;Michael L. Platt;Elizabeth M. Brannon

  • Training the Approximate Number System Improves Math Proficiency

    Joonkoo Park;Elizabeth M. Brannon

  • Number sense in infancy predicts mathematical abilities in childhood

    Ariel Starr;Melissa E. Libertus;Melissa E. Libertus;Elizabeth M. Brannon

  • Re-visiting the competence/performance debate in the acquisition of the counting principles

    Mathieu Le Corre;Gretchen Van de Walle;Elizabeth M. Brannon;Susan Carey

  • The development of ordinal numerical knowledge in infancy

    Elizabeth M Brannon

  • Electrophysiological evidence for notation independence in numerical processing

    Melissa E Libertus;Marty G Woldorff;Elizabeth M Brannon

  • Representation of the numerosities 1–9 by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).

    Elizabeth M. Brannon;Herbert S. Terrace

  • Monotonic Coding of Numerosity in Macaque Lateral Intraparietal Area

    Jamie D Roitman;Elizabeth M Brannon;Michael L Platt

  • The representation of numerical magnitude.

    Elizabeth M Brannon

  • The neural development of an abstract concept of number

    Jessica F. Cantlon;Melissa E. Libertus;Philippe Pinel;Stanislas Dehaene

  • How does cognition evolve? Phylogenetic comparative psychology

    Evan L. MacLean;Luke J. Matthews;Brian A. Hare;Charles L. Nunn

  • Number bias for the discrimination of large visual sets in infancy

    Elizabeth M Brannon;Sara Abbott;Donna J Lutz

  • Basic Math in Monkeys and College Students

    Jessica F Cantlon;Elizabeth M Brannon

  • Numerical Subtraction in the Pigeon: Evidence for a Linear Subjective Number Scale

    Elizabeth M. Brannon;Courtney J. Wusthoff;C.R. Gallistel;John Gibbon

  • Malleability of the approximate number system: effects of feedback and training.

    Nicholas Kurshan DeWind;Elizabeth M Brannon

  • Stable individual differences in number discrimination in infancy

    Melissa E. Libertus;Elizabeth M. Brannon

  • The multisensory representation of number in infancy.

    Kerry E. Jordan;Elizabeth M. Brannon

Frequent Co-Authors

Jessica F. Cantlon
Jessica F. Cantlon Carnegie Mellon University
Michael L. Platt
Michael L. Platt University of Pennsylvania
Melissa E. Libertus
Melissa E. Libertus University of Pittsburgh
Marty G. Woldorff
Marty G. Woldorff Duke University
Kevin A. Pelphrey
Kevin A. Pelphrey University of Virginia
Scott A. Huettel
Scott A. Huettel Duke University
Herbert S. Terrace
Herbert S. Terrace Columbia University
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
Daniel Casasanto
Daniel Casasanto Cornell University
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews

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