Elizabeth M. Brannon, Associate Professor

Elizabeth M. Brannon

Associate Professor
PhD, Columbia University, 2000
mailing address: B203 LSRC Durham, NC 27708
lab: LSRC Building, 668-0437
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phone: (919) 668-6201

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Research Summary:
 Dr. Brannon's research program examines the evolution and development of quantitative cognition. She studies how number, time, and spatial extent are represented by adult humans, infants, young children and nonhuman animals without language. With her collaborators at Duke she applies behavioral techniques, Event-related potentials, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and single-unit physiology to explore the cognitive and neural underpinnings of numerical cognition in nonhuman primates and throughout the human lifespan.

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)

  1. Jordan, K.E. MacLean, E., & Brannon, E.M. (2008). Monkeys tally and match quantities across senses. Cognition, 108, 617-625.
  2. Brannon, E.M., Libertus, M. Meck, W.H., Woldorff, M. (2008). Electrophysiological Measures of Time Processing in. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(2), 192-203.
  3. Cordes, S., Brannon, E.M (2008). The difficulties of representing continuous extent in infancy: representing number is just easier.. Child Development, 79(2), 476-489.
  4. Cantlon, J.F. & Brannon, E.M. (2007). Basic math in monkeys and college students. PLoS Biology, 5(12), e328.
  5. Roitman, J., Brannon. E.M. & Platt, M.L. (2007). Monotonic Coding of Numerosity in Macaque. PLoS Biology, 5(8).
  6. Brannon E.M., Suanda, U., Libertus, K (2007). Temporal discrimination increases in precision over development and parallels the development of numerosity discrimination. Developmental Science, 10(6), 770-777.
  7. Brannon, E.M. (2006). The representation of numerical magnitude. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16, 222-229.
  8. Cantlon, J., & Brannon, E.M., Carter, E.J., & Pelphrey, K. (2006). Notation-independent number processing in the intraparietal sulcus in adults and young children.. PLOS Biology, 4(5), 1-11.

Lab Personnel: 
Sara Cordes - Post-doc, Dustin Merritt - Post-doc, Jessica Cantlon - visiting Post-doc, Melissa Libertus- Graduate Student (year 5), David Paulsen Graduate student (year 2), Sarah M. Jones Graduate student (year 2), Emily Hopkins (infant lab manager), Monica Carlson (monkey lab manager),