Mathematical & Spatial Cognition Research Lab

Lab members Nicky Morton and Cam Hooson-Smith presented new research at the 7th annual MCLS conference in Washington D.C. last month. Many thanks to @mathcogsociety and organisers for putting together an excellent and informative three days.

When the perceptual system represents a ratio of two magnitudes, is it the ratio of the smaller to the larger magnitude, or the larger to the smaller? New research from our lab shows both can be implicitly learned in a non-symbolic paradigm. Open access: rdcu.be/dNweY

New paper from Nicky Morton and our @MathSpatCog group in Cognition @mathcogsociety @UCNZ @MarsdenFund

I'm stoked to be on a research team led by Dr Nicky Morton who's just received a @MarsdenFund grant for an interdisciplinary project on the perceptual origins of core knowledge and mathematical cognition. Well done, Nicky! @RSNZ @UCNZ @MCLS

One of our PhD students @CamHoosonSmith has entered the 'Visualise Your Thesis' competition this year explaining his research in a 60-second video. Watch the video and like it on 👉Youtube👈 to cast your vote for the People's Choice award. Voting closes Monday 24 July at 12:00PM!

We've just published a paper in Psychological Review on the origins of arithmetic. Why are addition and multiplication its fundamental operations? The answer may surprise you! open access: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-… @MarsdenFund @APA_Journals @UCNZ @mathcogsociety