IU Cognition and Learning Lab @ CDS 2026 Friday 4/10, Poster Session 1 (1:15-2:30pm) Individual differences in young children’s flexible attention to magnitudes (P1-50) Hyekyung Park Early nonsymbolic proportional estimation strategies and their contributions to math achievement (P1-64) Roberto Abreu-Mendoza Friday 4/10, Poster Session 2 (5:45-7pm) Measuring flexible attention to magnitude skill in young children (P2-16) Xinhe Zhang Parents’ motivational beliefs predict autonomy supportive behaviors during spatial play (P2-69) Mariana Sosa Saturday 4/11 Poster Session 3 (1:15-2:30pm) Relations between flexible attention to magnitudes and early mathematical skills (P3-56) Leslie Duru Saturday 4/11 Poster Session 4 (5:45-7:00pm) How does elementary school children’s math and spatial intrinsic motivation influence their performance on a number-line math task (P4-146) Caleb Soong Gender stereotypes, egalitarian beliefs, and academic achievement in early childhood (P4-160) Talia Halleck

Check out our lab's recent work at #CDS2026 in Montreal!

🪢 How do we picture things that bend or twist? A new #gocrpi study by Bennett-Pierre, Shipley, Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social
& Gunderson @gundersonlab.bsky.social introduces the Knot Reasoning Task, measuring flexible spatial skills. Post by Mickes buff.ly/g40cv5j

ECR also will ONLY accept proposals on higher education and/or the STEM workforce, for the upcoming Oct. 2 deadline.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Ugh so sorry to hear this Allison!

EDU also archived two STEM education postdoctoral training grant opportunities last week. STEM Ed OPRF (NSF 23-545) was supposed to have a due date of April 25 and that is no longer happening. STEM Ed IPRF (NSF 23-544) was also archived.

Calling prospective PhD students! The IU Psych PhD application deadline is Dec. 1st.
I’m looking for students interested in math cognition, academic motivation, and parent influences.
My lab: cognitionandlearning.lab.indiana.edu
PhD program: psych.indiana.edu/graduate/how...

**Job alert!** Full-time lab manager position in my lab
@IUPsychBrain
. Projects focus on spatial and numerical skills & motivation, and the role of parent-child interactions. Apply here: hrms.indiana.edu/psp/PH1PRD_P...

Cognition & Learning Lab @ CDS Friday 3/22, Poster Session 2 (5:45-7pm) All tied up: Developing the knot reasoning task, a novel measure of non-rigid spatial thinking (P2-18) Bennett-Pierre, Shipley, Newcombe & Gunderson How does mental rotation training affect calculation skills? The role of state anxiety and calculation type (P2-131) Zhang & Gunderson Using books to improve mental rotation skills in 4- and 5-year-old children (P2-159) Tavassolie, Sylverne, D’Antonio, Newcombe, Weinraub, & Gunderson Saturday 3/23, Poster Session 3 (1:15-2:30pm) Children’s motivational beliefs in math, verbal, and spatial domains: relations to gender, grade level, and achievement (P3-38) Tian, Camarote, & Gunderson

Check out my lab's recent work at #CDS2024!

I am hiring a postdoc to start this summer in my lab at Indiana University, on an NSF-funded project on preschoolers’ flexible attention to magnitudes (intersection of numerical cognition and executive function). Apps can be submitted here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/22188. Please share!

I am excited to be recruiting new PhD students to the Indiana University Dept. of Psych & Brain Science to study preschool numeracy, math language, executive functioning, spatial skills, beliefs about effort, and more. Please send prospective students my way!