Dissertations

Symbolic numbers: reading, writing, etc.

Tamar Barash (MA, 2021): A multi-digit number writing model based on a hierarchical representation of the number syntax.

Nadin Brutman (MA, 2021): The mental representation of the number’s verbal structure.

Zohar Cohen (MA, 2023): From “nine hundred and two” to 90,02: syntactic processes in number writing and their impairment .

Hadar Efodi-Klerman (MA, 2024): The limitsations of short-term memory: How does memory affect our writing of numbers?

Ella Shalit (MA, 2022): How do children read numbers? Explicit-knowledge acquisition versus cognitive development.

 

Arithmetic facts and long-term memory

Maayan Boguslavsky (MA, 2022): Why is it difficult to multiply? The types of learning disorders that impair multiplication table knowledge.

 

Arithmetic procedures, working memory, and programming

Lihi Catz (MA, 2023): How working memory supports programming and does programming support it back?

Shibolet Nir (MA, 2023): How we perform carry operation, why is it so difficult, and what can be learned from it about algorithms?

Shira Shanny (MA, 2020): How do we perform arithmetic procedures, and why is it hard for some of us?

Ligal Yariv (MA, 2024): The cognitive challenge in mental arithmetic: Is it hard to remember or hard to forget?

Sharon Zviran-Ginat (MA, 2022): How are calculation errors related to working memory?