Our new article with Percival Matthews and Anya Samek “Using online compound interest tools to improve financial literacy” just came out in the Journal of Economic Education. In this article, we examine the use of different types of tools (tables and visualizations) t0 teach people about compound interest. Our findings (which were surprising to us) were that the table format actually lead to greater gains than the visualizations.
Becky Liu Awarded Hilldale Fellowship
Congratulations to our undergraduate Becky Liu, who has been awarded a Hilldale Fellowship for her project “Cross Cultural Investigation of Foundational Fractions Concepts”. This Hilldale award builds on Becky’s successful Welton application last year, and will support Becky’s project in which she compares fractions understanding between groups of Native English speakers and Native Chinese speakers.
Come See Our Undergrads Present at the Undergrad Symposium
The Ed Neuro Lab will have five presentations at the Undergraduate Symposium this Thursday, April 14.
URS student Maiyer Vang will be presenting a poster (Session 1 12:30 – 1:45) Investigating the Neural Basis of Developmental Gerstmann’s Syndrome
Hilldale Award Winner Grace George will be presenting a poster (Session 2: 2:00 – 3:15 p.m) Investigations Into the Neural Basis of Effective Math Teaching
URS student Kim Crow will be presenting a poster (Session 3 3:30 – 4:45) FMRI Investigations of Multisensory Integration of Number
Hilldale Award Winner Jennifer Hathaway will be presenting a poster (Session 3 3:30 – 4:45) Neural Mechanisms Supporting Multisensory Integration of Number
URS student Nina Vakil will be speaking on The Link Between Fraction Magnitude Representations and Math Skills
For all the details, and information about all the other wonderful presentations, see the full program.
Ed to Speak at Temple University
Ed will be heading to Philadelphia to speak at Temple University in their Temple Institute for Learning & Education Sciences series next Wednesday, April 13. He will be speaking about Understanding Fractions: A Case Study in Educational Neuroscience.
The Ed Neuro Lab is at CNS
The Educational Neuroscience Lab is sending a party of three (Liz, Radhika and Zac) to the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting in the Big Apple!
We will be presenting three posters on our work, and Radhika will also present as a data blitz talk:
Data Blitz Session 1 (Saturday 2:54 – 3:00 pm) Talk 5: Decoding Grapheme-Color Synesthesia Using Multivariate Pattern Analysis*
Radhika Gosavi, Emma Meyering, Nathan Rose, Bradley Postle & Edward Hubbard
* The Data Blitz talk is also part of the Graduate Student Award (GSA) Radhika received from CNS
B32 (Sunday 8:00-10:00 am) An ALE Meta-analysis of Facial Processing in Autism
Zachary Grulke & Edward Hubbard
D173 (Monday 8:00-10:00 am) Individual Differences in Spatial Representations of Fractions Relate to Formal Math Achievement
Elizabeth Y. Toomarian & Edward M. Hubbard
F151 (Tuesday 8:00-10:00 am) Decoding Grapheme-Color Synesthesia Using Multivariate Pattern Analysis
Radhika Gosavi, Emma Meyering, Nathan Rose, Bradley Postle & Edward Hubbard
Please stop by and check out the latest work from the lab!