Symbolic number ordering and its relation with math achievement.

ore 16.30 aula 2C Psico 2

01.03.2023

Speaker: Professor Bert Reynvoet (KU Lueven)

Title: Symbolic number ordering and its relation with math achievement.

Abstract: Symbolic number ordering, that is deciding whether a sequence of numbers (e.g. 246) is in the correct order or not, is related to arithmetic performance. The underlying processes that lead to this relation are however unclear. In this talk, I will present a recent overview of the common findings in symbolic number ordering and discuss whether symbolic number ordering is influenced by early experiences with the count-list or reflects rather domain-general memory retrieval strategies.

Short bio: Bert Reynvoet obtained his PhD at the University of Ghent in 2002 under the supervision of Marc Brysbaert and Wim Fias. After a post-doc grant funded by the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO), I was appointed as an assistant professor at the KU Leuven in 2004. Since 2017, I am full professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the KU Leuven @ Kulak and affiliated to the Research unit Brain and Cognition in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences KU Leuven.

Bert Reynvoet supervised 15 PhDs and published +/- 100 papers in journals such as Human Brain Mapping, Neuroimaging, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Psychological Bulletin, Cognition, Psychological Research…. For a complete list see: http://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?Username=U0047096. I am a member of the European Association of Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP) and a governing board member of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS), for which we organized with the Belgian colleagues the MCLS2022 conference.