COORDINATOR
Full Professor in the area of Developmental and Educational Psychology, he has developed his teaching and research work at the University of Salamanca (USAL). He is director of the Master in Advanced Studies in Learning Disabilities at the University of Salamanca and coordinator of the laboratory of numerical cognition in the research group Learning, Instruction and Analysis of Educational Practice at the USAL. He has headed nine Knowledge Generation Projects of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and author of numerous publications on numerical cognition in prestigious journals.
The aim of the symposium is to delve into current issues related to numerical cognition from different perspectives and methodologies. Three research groups from the University of Salamanca, the University of Cadiz and the University of Talca (Chile) will participate in the symposium and will address issues related to numerical processing and computation. Firstly, the importance of the processing of non-symbolic magnitudes and how this processing affects, on the one hand, children with dyscalculia and, on the other hand, the learning of fractions will be discussed. Secondly, the use of the number line to assess central components of mathematical competence in both natural numbers and fractions will be discussed. Thirdly, the possibilities of Eye Tracking technology for the study of calculation processes and the collection of data on numerical cognition will be analyzed.