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Hans-Christoph Nuerk

Hans-Christoph Nuerk

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Psychology

D-Index
64
Citations
12823
World Ranking
3022
National Ranking
134

Overview

Hans-Christoph Nuerk is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Mathematics, with significant contributions to subfields including Statistics and Probability, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Education.

The scientist's work covers several main topics with a focus on cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills. Other areas of study include reading and literacy development, mathematics education and teaching techniques, as well as visual and cognitive learning processes. Additionally, their research touches on education, achievement, and giftedness, mathematics education and pedagogy, and motivation and self-concept in sports.

Nuerk has frequently collaborated with a group of coauthors that includes Christina Artemenko, Krzysztof Cipora, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Christian Plewnia, and Lilly Roth.

Their research has been published predominantly in these venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cognition

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Nuerk include:

  • Registered Replication Report on Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003), 2020, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • The spatial-numerical association of response codes effect and math skills: why related?, 2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Mathematics-gender stereotype endorsement influences mathematics anxiety, self-concept, and performance differently in men and women, 2022, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Professional mathematicians do not differ from others in the symbolic numerical distance and size effects, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Functional lateralization of arithmetic processing in the intraparietal sulcus is associated with handedness, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • On the cognitive link between space and number: a meta-analysis of the SNARC effect

    Guilherme Wood;Klaus Willmes;Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Martin H. Fischer

  • Decade breaks in the mental number line? Putting the tens and units back in different bins.

    Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Ulrich Weger;Klaus Willmes

  • The universal SNARC effect: the association between number magnitude and space is amodal.

    Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Guilherme Wood;Klaus Willmes

  • Notational modulation of the SNARC and the MARC (linguistic markedness of response codes) effect.

    Hans–Christoph Nuerk;Wiebke Iversen;Klaus Willmes

  • Embodied numerosity: Implicit hand-based representations influence symbolic number processing across cultures

    Frank Domahs;Korbinian Moeller;Stefan Huber;Klaus Willmes

  • Word problems: a review of linguistic and numerical factors contributing to their difficulty.

    Gabriella Daroczy;Magdalena Wolska;Walt Detmar Meurers;Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Hans-Christoph Nuerk

  • Dyscalculia from a developmental and differential perspective

    Liane Kaufmann;Michèle M. Mazzocco;Ann Dowker;Michael von Aster;Michael von Aster;Michael von Aster

  • Early place-value understanding as a precursor for later arithmetic performance--a longitudinal study on numerical development.

    K. Moeller;S. Pixner;J. Zuber;L. Kaufmann;L. Kaufmann

  • Children's early mental number line: logarithmic or decomposed linear?

    Korbinian Moeller;Silvia Pixner;Liane Kaufmann;Hans Christoph Nuerk

  • Sensori-motor spatial training of number magnitude representation

    Ursula Fischer;Korbinian Moeller;Martina Bientzle;Ulrike Cress

  • Walk the number line – An embodied training of numerical concepts

    Tanja Link;Korbinian Moeller;Stefan Huber;Ursula Fischer

  • On the language specificity of basic number processing: transcoding in a language with inversion and its relation to working memory capacity.

    Julia Zuber;Silvia Pixner;Silvia Pixner;Silvia Pixner;Korbinian Moeller;Korbinian Moeller;Hans Christoph Nuerk;Hans Christoph Nuerk

  • Extending the Mental Number Line A Review of Multi-Digit Number Processing

    Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Korbinian Moeller;Korbinian Moeller;Elise Klein;Elise Klein;Klaus Willmes

  • On the development of the mental number line: more, less, or never holistic with increasing age?

    Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Liane Kaufmann;Sabine Zoppoth;Klaus Willmes

  • Crossed hands and the SNARC effect: a failure to replicate Dehaene, Bossini and Giraux (1993).

    Guilherme Wood;Hans Christoph Nuerk;Klaus Willmes

  • On the Magnitude Representations of Two-Digit Numbers

    Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Klaus Willmes

  • Effects of Finger Counting on Numerical Development – The Opposing Views of Neurocognition and Mathematics Education

    Korbinian Moeller;Laura Martignon;Silvia Wessolowski;Joachim Engel

  • Language effects in magnitude comparison: small, but not irrelevant.

    Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Ulrich Weger;Klaus Willmes

  • Learning and development of embodied numerosity.

    Korbinian Moeller;Ursula Fischer;Tanja Link;Mirjam Wasner

  • On the relation between the mental number line and arithmetic competencies

    Tanja Link;Hans-Christoph Nuerk;Korbinian Moeller

Frequent Co-Authors

Korbinian Moeller
Korbinian Moeller University of Tübingen
Klaus Willmes
Klaus Willmes RWTH Aachen University
Ulrike Cress
Ulrike Cress Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Liane Kaufmann
Liane Kaufmann Health Science University
Thomas Dresler
Thomas Dresler University of Tübingen
Guilherme Wood
Guilherme Wood University of Graz
Ann-Christine Ehlis
Ann-Christine Ehlis University of Tübingen
Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer University of Potsdam
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Andreas J. Fallgatter University of Tübingen
Arthur M. Jacobs
Arthur M. Jacobs Freie Universität Berlin

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