The Cognitive Development and Communication lab is part of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. PI: Prof. Martha W. Alibali

Madison, WI
Joined November 2017
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This Thursday at the meeting of the International Society for the Learning Sciences! #ISLS2021
Come see my talk tomorrow (Thu) on how we designed a new, effective self-explanation scaffold with visual representations (nominee for Best Design Paper✨)! with @annabartel_ @gautamyadav818 @nicholas_vest @silla_elena @mwalibali Search #655 in Whova #ISLS2021
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Check out our new paper on death in animated films! Check out @enrica_b_ thread below. It amazing it was the get to work with her! She combined her interest in media with our work on children's understanding of death, and designed some cool studies. All as an undergrad!
Excited to share that my first paper ever is now available online! authors.elsevier.com/a/1d7Yq…. Clicking on this link will give you free access to the whole paper until July 14th. Now for some highlights!
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Check out our #SRCD21 poster about how children's early fractions knowledge lays the foundation for their later math achievement! With @ypark246 @EdNeuroLab & Percival Matthews. I'll be on chat and Zoom today at 3:15pm ET! #SRCD2021 #SRCD
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Excellent dissertation defense talk by @ypark246 this morning! Congratulations, YP :)
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Myself and several other awesome researchers have designed this study in an effort to better understand how kids learn algebra! If you know any 6th-8th graders in the US who are interested in participating (virtual study!) feel free to send this gorgeous infographic their way ☺️
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I have a new pre-print with Karl Rosengren and his awesome lab at @UofR Back in April we asked parents to tell us about the conversations they have with their children about the COVID-19 pandemic. We were interested in their child's questions and how parents responded 1/x
"When will it be over?" U.S. Children's Questions and Parents' Responses about the COVID-19 Pandemic zpr.io/HKMkq
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It’s out! Want to know more about how simple and ratio magnitude perception develop from pre-K to adults? Or how two perceptions are related? Check out our recent work!! With @AlexViegut and Percival Matthews! #devsci onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… – at Wisconsin, USA
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Some good news to end the first week of the semester! Our paper on @CBELifescied special issue is now available. In this paper, we examine the visualizations in biology books. Best part: It is open access! Here is the link: lifescied.org/doi/full/10.11…
Out now! @CBELifescied Special Issue on Cross-Disciplinary Research in Biology Education lifescied.org/toc/lse/19/3
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Any #cogsci2020 attendees want to talk about tape diagrams and algebra? Stop by our poster P-1-153 in poster session #1 at 11:20EDT. Will tweet poster later! Abstract here: cognitivesciencesociety.org/… thanks to my co-authors! @silla_elena @nicholas_vest @tomonagashima @mwalibali
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