Dissertations

MA dissertations

Symbolic numbers: reading, writing, etc.

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

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

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

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

Arithmetic, working memory, and programming

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

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

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

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

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