Publications

Key Topics:

Fractions Proportion Decimals Spatial, Mathematical, and Relational Language

Numerical Cognition Analogy Strategies Open Science Learning

Michelle A. Hurst, Steven T. Piantadosi (2024). Continuous and discrete proportion elicit different cognitive strategies. Cognition.

Jordan R Wagge, Michelle Hurst, Mark J Brandt, Ljiljana B Lazarevic, Nicole Legate, Jon E Grahe (2023). Teaching Research in Principle and in Practice: What Do Psychology Instructors Think of Research Projects in Their Courses?. Psychology Learning & Teaching.

Michelle Hurst, Ty W Boyer, Sara Cordes (2023). Spontaneous and directed attention to number and proportion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Sarah H Eason, Michelle Hurst, Kassie Kerr, Amy Claessens, Susan C Levine (2022). Enhancing parent and child shape talk during puzzle play. Cognitive Development.

Michelle Hurst, Susan C Levine (2022). Children's understanding of most is dependent on context. Cognition.

Michelle Hurst, Abrea Greene, Sarah H Eason, Amy Claessens, Sara Cordes (2022). Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons. Cognitive Development.

Michelle Hurst, Jacob R Butts, Sara Cordes (2022). Connecting symbolic fractions to their underlying proportions using iterative partitioning. Developmental Psychology.

Michelle Hurst, Alyson Wong, Raychel Gordon, Aziza Alam, Sara Cordes (2022). Children’s gesture use provides insight into proportional reasoning strategies. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Michelle Hurst, Steven Piantadosi (2022). Investigating Adults’ Strategy Use During Proportional Comparison. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

David Braithwaite, Jake McMullen, Michelle Hurst (2022). Cross-notation knowledge of fractions and decimals. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Michelle Hurst, Alex Shaw, Nadia Chernyak, Susan C Levine (2020). Giving a larger amount or a larger proportion: Stimulus format impacts children’s social evaluations. Developmental Psychology.

Sophie Savelkouls, Michelle Hurst, Sara Cordes (2020). Preschoolers’ number knowledge relates to spontaneous focusing on number for small, but not large, sets. Developmental Psychology.

Michelle Hurst, Marisa Massaro, Sara Cordes (2020). Fraction Magnitude: Mapping Between Symbolic and Spatial Representations of Proportion. Journal of Numerical Cognition.

Michelle Hurst, Naomi Polinsky, Catherine a Haden, Susan C Levine, David H Uttal (2019). Leveraging Research on Informal Learning to Inform Policy on Promoting Early STEM. Social Policy Report.

Michelle Hurst, K Leigh Monahan, E Heller, Sara Cordes (2019). Talking about proportion: Fraction labels impact numerical interference in non‐symbolic proportional reasoning. Developmental Science.

Michelle Hurst, Sara Cordes (2018). Children’s understanding of fraction and decimal symbols and the notation-specific relation to pre-algebra ability. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Michelle Hurst, Sara Cordes (2018). Attending to relations: Proportional reasoning in 3-to 6-year-old children. Developmental psychology.

Michelle Hurst, Sara Cordes (2018). A systematic investigation of the link between rational number processing and algebra ability. British Journal of Psychology.

Michelle Hurst, Sara Cordes (2017). Working memory strategies during rational number magnitude processing. Journal of Educational Psychology.

Michelle Hurst, Sara Cordes (2017). When Being Good at Math Is Not Enough: How Students’ Beliefs About the Nature of Mathematics Impact Decisions to Pursue Optional Math Education. Understanding Emotions in Mathematical Thinking and Learning.

Michelle Hurst, Sara Cordes (2017). Rational-Number Comparison Across Notation: Fractions, Decimals, and Whole Numbers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Michelle Hurst, Ursula Anderson, Sara Cordes (2017). Mapping Among Number Words, Numerals, and Nonsymbolic Quantities in Preschoolers. Journal of Cognition and Development.

Karina Hamamouche, Michelle Hurst, Sara Cordes (2016). The Effect of Emotion and Induced Arousal on Numerical Processing.

Michelle Hurst, Carlotta Relander, Sara Cordes (2016). Biases and benefits of number lines and pie charts in proportion representation. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Michelle Hurst, K Leigh Monahan, E Heller, Sara Cordes (2014). 123s and ABCs: developmental shifts in logarithmic-to-linear responding reflect fluency with sequence values. Developmental Science.