UBC Centre for Cognitive Development

We are a Developmental research centre @UBCPsych, exploring what makes learning easy, and what makes it difficult! PI: Dr. Darko Odic.

[UBC Centre for Cognitive Development @ubccogdev]

Today we are celebrating our amazing @DpDramkin! She just defended her PhD dissertation and not even COVID could hold her down!
Congratulations, Dr. Dramkin! ✨ You are an outstanding researcher and we are all so proud of you!

[UBC Centre for Cognitive Development @ubccogdev]

You can learn more about the exciting lines of research they're cultivating on our lab's website! 👉 https://t.co/rVMpcHFBAl

[UBC Centre for Cognitive Development @ubccogdev]

Our lab is celebrating some newly minted Master's students! Congratulations to Maria Clara (
@mgilbrandao) and Miranda on their successful MA defenses this week! 🎉🥂 Onwards to the PhD! @UBCPsych

[UBC Centre for Cognitive Development @ubccogdev]

📢 TODAY (June 6) @mgilbrandao will be representing @UBCPsych in the session "Exploring the mechanisms of number processing and math cognition"! Drop by at 16:45 to learn about her exciting work on error detection and math! 🎉🔢🐨 #MCLS2023 #MCLS23 @mathcogsociety @MCLStrainee

[UBC Psychology @UBCPsych]

🥳We are here, and we are Queer! We are so proud of our 2SLGBTQIA+ faculty, staff, and students. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Use the #UBCPride to show us what you are doing this pride. 💗❤️‍🔥For more information on UBC and community events, visit: https://t.co/7pRoRYVKLF

[ALIVE Lab @ UBC @ALIVEUBC]

📢We are pleased to announce that @UBCEducation students Zahira Tasabehji and Aimee Lutrin have been awarded @SSHRC_CRSH CGS Masters scholarships‼️Congratulations Zahira and Aimee🌟

🔗https://t.co/4urnNL0qhN
🔗https://t.co/u5L6qpOCIZ

#srl #gaming #earlylearning

cc @ubccogdev

[Denitza Dramkin @DpDramkin]

Presented my last poster as a PhD student. But the real highlight was convincing my lovely supervisor to take this cheesy photo with me! Truly grateful for Darko putting up with my shenanigans all these years! 😂🧀🐨 #SRCD2023 #SRCD23 #SRCD @SRCDtweets

[Denitza Dramkin @DpDramkin]

💥 Tomorrow at 12:30pm 💥 I'll be sharing my dissertation work showing that young children can make fine-grained mathematical judgments, providing exact estimates of quotients during division prior to formal experience!🧵(1/n) @SRCDtweets #SRCD2023 #SRCD23

[Paris Gappmayr @parisgap]

Please RSVP for #SignFest2023 by this Saturday at https://t.co/xtMYLmPYrO :) There will be 3 fantastic invited presenters, time for networking, and a poster session! Hope to see you there!🙌

[UBC Psychology @UBCPsych]

📢Are you interested in developmental research? The Early Developmental Research Group (@LLEmberson) is hiring undergraduate research assistants. To learn more, visit: https://t.co/ddAMfx4xXt

[UBC Centre for Cognitive Development @ubccogdev]

The CCD is headed to #SRCD23! Check out the koala-ty work our grad students are doing on math, metacognition, and number perception! 🐨🔢🎉 @SRCDtweets @UBCPsych @UBCLangScis

[UBC Centre for Cognitive Development @ubccogdev]

Congratulations to our very own @mgilbrandao on her acceptance to #MCLS2023! She's organized an exciting symposium - with a stellar group of researchers - focused on the role of the ANS in math! See you there @mathcogsociety @MCLStrainee! 🐨🎉🔢

[Denitza Dramkin @DpDramkin]

💥New paper out in Acta Psychologica with @corydbonn, @carebaer7, & Darko Odic (@ubccogdev / @UBCPsych).

We explore what role non-numeric features play in number perception.

Short 🧵below and link to the paper here: https://t.co/XyR7S0HfbB

[Jenny Wang 👶 🧮 @JinjingJenny1]

🔔NEW PREPRINT🔔 We found that counting videos help 14- to 19-month-old infants better track moving objects 🐷 https://t.co/PBL6krjVz4 via @OSFramework
👇 check out my super low-tech animated stimuli

[UBC Centre for Cognitive Development @ubccogdev]

Check out this latest pub from our current grad student @DpDramkin, and former koalaty researchers (@carebaer7 & @corydbonn)! 👇 It focuses on some important questions surrounding how we perceive number, and we're so excited to have these findings "out in the world"! 🐨🟡🔵🎉

[Denitza Dramkin @DpDramkin]

💥New paper out in Acta Psychologica with @corydbonn, @carebaer7, & Darko Odic (@ubccogdev / @UBCPsych).

We explore what role non-numeric features play in number perception.

Short 🧵below and link to the paper here: https://t.co/XyR7S0HfbB

[Carolyn Baer @carebaer7]

🚨 New paper in @TrendsCognSci with @celestekidd!
We review evidence that certainty is a valuable learning signal even for very young children.
Short 🧵below, and article here: https://t.co/xN7bkc2H2A

[UBC Centre for Cognitive Development @ubccogdev]

We’re sad to say “see you soon” to our lab coordinator extraordinaire @NataliaModzelik. But we’re so grateful to have had Natalia as our koalaty leader for so long! Can confidently say that the @HamlinUBC lab is in great hands! Follow this 10/10 koalaty human here!👇🐨❤️🧑‍🚒

[UBC Centre for Cognitive Development @ubccogdev]

Check out this member feature of our very own @DpDramkin! 👇🐨🎉

[UBC Language Sciences Institute @UBCLangScis]

LangSci member feature! Learn about what inspires PhD Candidate, Denitza Dramkin, to pursue her line or research in developmental psychology, and why becoming a palaeontologist wasn't the most viable career option. https://t.co/xZJRfHYpJO @DpDramkin

[UBC Centre for Cognitive Development @ubccogdev]

So proud of our koala @elisciasinclair!!! 🐨🎉 We’ll be sad to see her go, but are so excited for what the future holds for such a stellar scholar!

[Eliscia (she/her) @elisciasinclair]

I graduated from @UBCPsych today! Thank you to all my professors, mentors, and lab members (@CGR_UBC @ubccogdev) for an amazing 4 years!

[UBC Centre for Cognitive Development @ubccogdev]

Congratulations to the wonderful @UBCDrBenCh!!! Well deserved! 🎉

[UBC Psychology @UBCPsych]

Join us in congratulating Dr. Benjamin Cheung on receiving the Killam Teaching Prize for his outstanding teaching! Read more: https://t.co/BWGCQYmoEV