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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Jessica F. Cantlon is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with an emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, statistics and probability, education, and social psychology.

Their work spans several key topics, including:

  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Child and animal learning development
  • Reading and literacy development
  • Mathematics education and teaching techniques
  • Neuroscience, education and cognitive function
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Academic and historical perspectives in psychology

Frequent publication venues for Cantlon include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Science Advances
  • Cognitive Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Cantlon include:

  • "The Future of Women in Psychological Science," 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Recursive sequence generation in monkeys, children, U.S. adults, and native Amazonians," 2020, Science Advances
  • "What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary," 2024, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "Reasoning Through the Disjunctive Syllogism in Monkeys," 2021, Psychological Science
  • "The evolution of quantitative sensitivity," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

They have collaborated frequently with researchers including Lauren S Aulet, Steven T. Piantadosi, Marie Amalric, Stephen Ferrigno, and Abhishek M. Dedhe.

In addition to journal articles, Cantlon has contributed to book publications. One notable title is The Cambridge Handbook of Dyslexia and Dyscalculia, published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press.

Cantlon was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2013.

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

  • 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

  • The neural development of an abstract concept of number

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

  • Cortical Representations of Symbols, Objects, and Faces Are Pruned Back during Early Childhood

    Jessica F. Cantlon;Philippe Pinel;Philippe Pinel;Philippe Pinel;Stanislas Dehaene;Kevin A. Pelphrey

  • Basic Math in Monkeys and College Students

    Jessica F Cantlon;Elizabeth M Brannon

  • Cognitive imitation in rhesus macaques.

    Francys Subiaul;Jessica F. Cantlon;Ralph L. Holloway;Herbert S. Terrace

  • Neural Activity during Natural Viewing of Sesame Street Statistically Predicts Test Scores in Early Childhood

    Jessica F. Cantlon;Rosa Li

  • How much does number matter to a monkey (Macaca mulatta)

    Jessica F. Cantlon;Elizabeth M. Brannon

  • Math, monkeys, and the developing brain

    Jessica F. Cantlon

  • Young Children Bet on Their Numerical Skills Metacognition in the Numerical Domain

    Vy A. Vo;Rosa Li;Nate Kornell;Alexandre Pouget;Alexandre Pouget

  • Early Math Achievement and Functional Connectivity in the Fronto-Parietal Network

    Robert W. Emerson;Jessica F. Cantlon

  • The Future of Women in Psychological Science

    June Gruber;Jane Mendle;Kristen A. Lindquist;Toni Schmader

  • Continuity and change in children's longitudinal neural responses to numbers.

    Robert W. Emerson;Jessica F. Cantlon

  • Neural Tuning to Numerosity Relates to Perceptual Tuning in 3-6-Year-Old Children

    Alyssa J. Kersey;Jessica F. Cantlon

  • Semantic congruity affects numerical judgments similarly in monkeys and humans

    Jessica F. Cantlon;Elizabeth M. Brannon

  • No intrinsic gender differences in children's earliest numerical abilities.

    Alyssa J. Kersey;Alyssa J. Kersey;Emily J. Braham;Kelsey D. Csumitta;Melissa E. Libertus

  • Adding up the effects of cultural experience on the brain

    Jessica F. Cantlon;Elizabeth M. Brannon

  • Heterogeneity impairs numerical matching but not numerical ordering in preschool children.

    Jessica Cantlon;Rebecca Fink;Kelley Safford;Elizabeth M. Brannon

  • Comment on “Log or Linear? Distinct Intuitions of the Number Scale in Western and Amazonian Indigene Cultures”

    Jessica F. Cantlon;Jessica F. Cantlon;Sara Cordes;Melissa E. Libertus;Elizabeth M. Brannon

  • Spontaneous analog number representations in 3-year-old children.

    Jessica F. Cantlon;Kelley E. Safford;Elizabeth M. Brannon

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth M. Brannon
Elizabeth M. Brannon University of Pennsylvania
Melissa E. Libertus
Melissa E. Libertus University of Pittsburgh
Kevin A. Pelphrey
Kevin A. Pelphrey University of Virginia
Nate Kornell
Nate Kornell Williams College
Bradford Z. Mahon
Bradford Z. Mahon Carnegie Mellon University
Herbert S. Terrace
Herbert S. Terrace Columbia University
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Stella F. Lourenco
Stella F. Lourenco Emory University
Michael L. Platt
Michael L. Platt University of Pennsylvania

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