Melissa E Libertus, Graduate Student
Research Summary:
I am mainly interested in the development of numerical cognition in infants and children and how and why this development is impaired in developmental dyscalculia. Currently, I am investigating how the brain makes basic numerical judgments, e.g. if a given array of visual objects is smaller or larger than another, by using brain imaging techniques such as event-related potentials (ERPs). In a second line of research, I use ERPs to study how infants’ brains process time intervals. In the future, I hope to examine whether number and time share a common mechanism and how the developmental trajectory of the two might be related.
Representative Publications:
(More Publications)
- Brannon, E. M., Libertus, M. E., Meck, W., Woldorff, M. (2005). Neurophysiological correlates of time processing are modulated by interval differences in human infants and adults. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York.
- Libertus, M. E. (2004).
Unterschiede in Eigenschaftspräferenzen bei prädikativem versus funktionalem Problemlösen. [Differences in preferences for object features in the context of predicative versus functional problem solving]. Poster presentation at the 44th Conference of the German Psychological Society in Göttingen, Germany.
- Libertus, M. E. (2004).
Influences of predicative versus functional reasoning on object feature selection. Unpublished Bachelor's thesis. University of Osnabrück.
- Schwank, I., Armbrust, S., Libertus, M. E. (2004). Prädikative versus funktionale Denkvorgänge beim Konstruieren von Algorithmen [Predicative versus functional thinking processes while constructing algorithms]. Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik [International Reviews on Mathematical Education], 35(3).
