Mathematical vocabulalry may play a critical role in children's fraction skiills? See our new publication! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Yunji Park
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NICHD K99 Fellow @StanfordMed studying how educational experience shapes the brain/cognitive development. @UWMadison Alum.
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Are young children’s brains already wired to understand fractions? See nice write-up of our recent article! waisman.wisc.edu/2025/08/08/ret…
www.waisman.wisc.edu Rethinking fraction instruction: New study shows young children’s brains are wired to understand... Even before formal schooling, children's brains can grasp ratios as holistic magnitudes—suggesting they’re naturally wired to understand foundational fraction concepts like comparing amounts. Excited to share one of my PhD projects with @EdNeuroLab-the first neuroimaging study on fraction processing in children! Our findings showed that even 2nd graders, who haven't received formal fraction instruction, can process fraction magnitudes. dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.7…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com Developmental Changes in Nonsymbolic and Symbolic Fractions Processing: A Cross‐Sectional fMRI Study A substantial body of research has demonstrated that human and nonhuman animals have perceptually-based abilities to process magnitudes of nonsymbolic ratios (e.g., ratios composed by juxtaposing... Finally it's out! Short‐term number sense training can recapitulate long‐term neurodevelopmental changes from childhood to adolescence. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com Short‐term number sense training recapitulates long‐term neurodevelopmental changes from childhood... Number sense is fundamental to the development of numerical problem-solving skills. In early childhood, children establish associations between non-symbolic (e.g., a set of dots) and symbolic... Integrated number sense tutoring remediates aberrant neural representations in children with mathematical disabilities biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursciView quoted post on X
