Former MA Sudents | sarit-ashkenazi

Former MA students

Hila Haber

My research deals with the development of the relationship between the innate ability of number processing in children and understanding of the acquired symbolic system. The study was conducted on two groups of children at the ages 3 and 4, during which we examined counting abilities, subitizing and working memory, in order to see qualitatively developmental differences between the two groups. My interest in this research is due to the fact that there is little research on numerical abilities in children, especially the developmental relationship described above.

Yaara Lador

Email: yaara.lador@mail.huji.ac.il

Master student in Learning Disabilities. My research focuses on subitizing and estimation (or serial counting), and their connection to visuo-spatial working memory, while using both behavioral measures and eye movements measures.I manipulated the dots arrangement, so it is displayed randomly, canonical (a familiar shape, similar to the arrangement on a playing dice) or grouped (in groups of dots displayed at the subitizing range), in order to deeper our understanding of the nature of enumeration.Eye movements tracking allows a more precise temporal measure of mental processes than reaction time or accuracy measures, and offers an innovative methodology in the research field of numerical cognition and dyscalculia.

Yulia Tsyganov

Email: yulia.tsyganov@mail.huji.ac.il

I’ve worked for a long period as a tutor for children with special needs. For now my area of work is remedial education. I’m interested in development of numerical cognition in relation to attention abilities. My research has focused on cognitive estimation and basic numerical abilities in students with and without ADHD. In particular, the evidence for different mechanisms was found for estimating weight versus estimating numerical quantity and time. The findings also indicated the significant role of ANS in cognitive estimation, suggesting, that cognitive estimation test could serve a reallife examination for basic abstract numerical representations.

Hagar Velner

Email: Hagarv17@gmail.com

Master’s degree graduate in learning disabilities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Working as a digital learning designer and remedial teacher. My thesis study examined different factors such as mathematical anxiety, spatial anxiety, spatial ability and self-efficacy. We tested these factors to examine the way in which they affect mathematical achievements altogether, in order to understand the relationship between them. ‏

Anna Adi

Email: anna.adi@mail.huji.ac.il

I got my bachelor's degree in economics and accounting from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I was a practicing accountant for many years since then, but I have always been attracted to the world of academic research and therapeutic professions. So, a few years ago, I decided to make a career change, returned to The Hebrew University, and received a master’s degree in Learning Disabilities at The Seymour Fox School of Education. My MA Thesis explored the relationship between the basic abilities of quantitative processing in adults, and found that the discrete dimension was processed more automatically than the continuous dimension and than the symbolic value of numerals. These days I am preparing my PhD proposal, intending to deepen the understanding of basic abilities in the field of quantitative processing in children and their relation to mathematics. I am especially interested in the roles of continuous dimension processing and of spatial ability in the development of quantitative and mathematical abilities.