MY RESEARCH
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I pursue three areas of interest:
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I try to understand cognitive aging : how does change affect or not human cognition.
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I carry out research on how emotion influences cognition and how this influence changes during aging.
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I study cognitive development in children, mostly in the domain of arithmetic.
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I investigate cognitive processes involved in arithmetic problem solving tasks.​
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Common thread :
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In each of these three areas, I investigate strategic aspects. That is, I investigate which strategies participants use, how often they use each available strategy, how they execute and select available strategies. Moreover, in both children as well as in young and older adults, I aim at determining how strategic aspects change with children’s and adults’ age, as well as developmental processes underlying these changes. Some of my research projects are also conducted with Alzheimers’ patients. All in all, adopting a strategy perspective on both human cognition and its lifespan development proved fruitful to better understand and provide mechanisitic accounts of cognitive performance and cognitive development.
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Method
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To investigate these issues, my students, collaborators, and I run lab experiments in which we collect both behavioral (i.e., solution times, percent errors, video recordings, verbal protocols, eye movements) and neuro-imaging (e.g., ERP, fMRI, MEG) data.
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