Brain and Maths in Ibero-America

1st Edition, Volume 282 - November 22, 2023
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Editors: Mariuche Gomides, Isabela Starling-Alves, Flavia H. Santos
Language: English

Brain and Maths in Ibero-America, Volume 282 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting c… Read more

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Brain and Maths in Ibero-America, Volume 282 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

Mariuche Gomides

Dr. Mariuche Gomides is a postdoctoral researcher at UCD School of Psychology. She holds a PhD in Psychology, a master's degree in Neuroscience, and a BA in Psychology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her research interests concern the cognitive underlying mechanisms of mathematical development.

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University College Dublin, School of Psychology, Dublin, Ireland

Isabela Starling-Alves

Isabella Starling-Alves is a graduate student in Educational Psychology, in the Human Development area. She obtained her B.S. in Psychology in 2014 and my M.S. in Neuroscience in 2017, both at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Her research interest is in understanding the development of children’s fraction operations skills.

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Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA

Flavia H. Santos

Dr Flavia H. Santos is an awardee of the prestigious UCD Ad Astra Fellowship (2019-2024) and an Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology since 2018. Dr Santos is an active neuroscientist at the UCD Affective, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience, developing innovative translational research on neurodevelopmental disorders. She is mainly focused on numerical cognition development and factors that affect its functioning such as math's anxiety. Dr Santos has a strong interest in how Music Science interact with emotion and cognition. She has carried out studies on interventions to stimulate and remediate mathematical performance using musical training and computerised tasks. At the School of Psychology, she leads the Music and Math Cognition Group, featured at the UCD Discovery Rising Star. Dr Santos is also a member of the UCD Childhood and Human Development Research Centre. She has several peer-reviewed articles in neuroscience, also she authored and edited six books in the field of neuropsychology and rehabilitation. Her research is focused on Sustainable Developmental Goals, SDG 3 (Health and Well-being) and SDG4 (Quality Education). She also advocates for SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and SDG10 (Reduce Inequalities).

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Assistant Professor, School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Ireland

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