Cognitive and Neuropsychological Development Laboratory
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Associate Professor Robert Reeve+61 3 8344 6383
Research Overview
Among other issues, we are interested in the neurological and cognitive causes of developmental dyscalculia; diagnosis and treatment of dyscalculia; the significance of individual differences in cognitive change; models of changes in problem solving strategies; longitudinal/measurement models of cognitive change; the way in which executive functions, anxiety and emotion interact to affect problem solving abilities (particularly mathematics); the role of spatial cognition in children's reasoning; the significance of finger agnosia and movement disorders in numerical cognition; relationships between cultural and comparative factors and cognition, especially numerical cognition; the relationship between personality factors and executive functioning
Staff
Kelly Trezise
Jacob M Paul
Associate Professor Robert Reeve
Dr Judi Humberstone
Dr Jason Forte
Collaborators
Research Publications
Butterworth, R. & Reeve, R. A. (2012). Counting words and a principles-after account of the development of number concepts. In M. Siegal & L. Surian (Eds), Access to language and cognitive development (pp. 160 – 175). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Research Projects
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Faculty Research Themes
School Research Themes
Cognitive Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology
Key Contact
For further information about this research, please contact Laboratory Director Associate Professor Robert Reeve
Department / Centre
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
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