Research at the KSU Cognitive Development Lab, under the direction of Dr. Clarissa A. Thompson, focuses on:
• Children’s use of “buggy” estimation strategies.
• How children draw analogies between numerical contexts to help them solve problems.
• The impact that numerical representations have on the types of numbers children are able to remember.
• Shifts in children’s numerical representations with increasing age and experience.
• Circumstances under which transfer of numerical knowledge is facilitated or inhibited.
• The costs and benefits of representational change.
Research in the KSU Cognitive Development Lab investigates the ways that children:
• Learn
• Develop strategies to solve problems
• Generalize knowledge to novel contexts
• Remember information
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