Dr. Elizabeth Brannon

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Biography

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.

Research Interests

Courses

PSYC 1777 Introduction to Developmental Psychology PSYC 4997 Honor's Seminar

Requirements for University of Pennsylvania

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.6
GRE General
Verbal
Required:162
Quantitative
Required:162
Overall
Required:162
GMAT
Total Score
Required:728
Overall
Required:728
TOEFL
Total
Required:115
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree or equivalent Strong quantitative background
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