Lab Song!
Lab Director and Professor
Martha W. Alibali
Contact information:
Department of Psychology and Department of Educational Psychology,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
mwalibali@wisc.edu
office: (608) 262-0837
lab: (608) 263-0757
Graduate Students
Andrea M. Donovan
Andrea is interested in cognitive development and mathematical learning in children. Her current research investigates the role of manipulatives in children’s mathematical learning and conceptual understanding of equations, and how children express new knowledge in performance, speech and gesture.
Rui Meng
I am a fourth year graduate student advised by Martha Alibali and Percival Matthews. My research focuses on cognitive development and cut across cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology. In particular, I study how young children and adults understand and interpret covariation data, and its connections with other numerical and mathematical concepts.
Anna Bartel
I am a third year graduate student advised by Martha Alibali. Broadly, my research interests are focused on how visual representations help students solve math problems. Specifically, I am interested in how diagrams influences the degree to which a learner is capable of symbolizing an equation from a story problem, and how different visual representations of variability influence students (mis)conceptions about confidence intervals.
David Menendez
I’m a third year graduate student advised by Martha Alibali and Karl Rosengren. My research broadly centers on conceptual development. More specifically, on children’s understanding of the natural world, and how visual representations aid or hinder learning about biology. I am also interested in how children’s socialization into their given culture might influence their conception of life processes.
Undergraduate Students
Kathryn Anderson
Vaughan Collins
Collen Bruckner
Erika Strauss
Erin Condon
Eartha Zhang
Vanesa Meneses
Morgan Gald
Delaney Twing
Morgan Pagenkopf
Olivia Borglin
Adele Poser
Devin Deegan
Vijay Marupudi
Li Cai