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Elizabeth M. Brannon is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Chair of Natural Sciences and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research program investigates evolutionary development and quantitative cognition, focusing on how adult humans, infants, young children, and nonhuman animals represent numbers. She employs behavioral techniques, event-related potentials, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and single-unit physiology to explore the cognitive and neural foundations of numerical cognition across species and lifespan. A major current focus of her research is to study how training in primitive number sense can facilitate mathematical abilities in both children and adults.
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