Professor Daniel Ansari has been recognized as the recipient of the 2026 Pickering Award for Outstanding Contribution to Developmental Psychology in Canada.

Mental rotation skills predict later achievement in STEM, and prior research shows that children's mental rotation skills improve after training. Howe…

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Increasing the number of girls and women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields remains an important educational goal. Gender ste…

Despite decades of research, we still know less than we would like about the association between joint attention (JA) and language acquisition. One reason for this is that we still have not agreed ho...

Finger counting is recognized as a valuable tool that supports young children in performing arithmetic tasks. However, concerns have been raised about whether this practice traps children in immatu...

Remembering the temporal context of events is difficult across the lifespan. Across many cultures and languages, people get around this problem by gro…

The present intervention study examines how parents' use of gestures changes the way they provide math talk to their children, and whether increased u…

The current study investigated the link between subdomains of spatial and math skills in preschool-aged full-term and preterm-born children. We assessed 238 English-speaking children living in the ...

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Children, like adults, use one of two strategies to solve mental rotation problems

Block construction performance is related to mathematics and block construction training leads to improvement in mathematics. However, block construction is a complex task, and it is unknown which ...

Latent profile analysis was used to examine variation in early fraction knowledge among first graders (N = 204; Mage = 6.68 years) across nonsymbolic …

Spatial representation and reasoning are important in cognition, yet they are challenging for children. Research has shown that comparison can support learning about common spatial structure and that...

Training children’s spatial abilities improves maths performance, studies show – and new research from the University of Surrey identifies practical teaching methods to do just that

This study, involving 120 children (Mage = 4.25; SD = 0.83; 53% Female, 49% White, 23% multiracial, 16% Black, 9% Asian American, and 3% Latine) and their parents, examined parent talk constructs and....

Mathematical language, such as quantitative (e.g., few) and spatial (e.g., after) terms, is critical for mathematical development. However, studies of…

Huntington’s disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder affecting striato-cortical circuits, with significant heterogeneity in the severity an…

Research shows that parent–child math activities in the home positively relate to children’s math learning. Although there is evidence suggesting that…

Imagine that we designed a fully intelligent, autonomous robot that acted on the world to accomplish its goals. How could we make sure that it would want the same things we do? Alison Gopnik explores....

Abstract. Recent work demonstrates that U.S. preschoolers can represent the abstract relational concepts same and different when these abstract relational concepts are predicated upon perceptual dimen...

The latest Timss international rankings show English pupils' weakness in key areas of maths – and our lack of focus on spatial reasoning is a major factor, argues Emily Farran