The Queen of the Sciences Lab investigates reasoning and mathematical cognition among children and adults, using correlational and experimental methods and formal cognitive modeling.<\/p>\n
Informal Reasoning and Argumentation.<\/strong> This project investigates informal reasoning and argumentation from a cognitive perspective. It addresses questions such as “How does the effectiveness of arguments depend on the beliefs of their targets?”, “What higher-level cognitive processes are involved in evaluating arguments?”, and “Under what conditions do facts cause beliefs to change?”<\/p>\n Deductive Reasoning in Mathematics.<\/strong> This project aims to understand how people generate and evaluate deductive arguments about mathematical content. Collaborators include Matthew Inglis and Lara Alcock at Loughborough University, and Anna Rafferty at Carleton College. Relevant publications: Braithwaite & Rafferty (2025)<\/a>, Braithwaite (2025)<\/a>, Braithwaite & Shrager (2025)<\/a><\/p>\n Children’s Arithmetic.<\/strong> This project aims to create a unified theory of children’s arithmetic development, implemented as a computational cognitive model. The theory should account for how children learn and do arithmetic with different types of numbers (e.g., whole numbers, fractions, and decimals) and should explain how procedural and conceptual knowledge interact in this context. This work is funded by National Science Foundation Award #1844140<\/a> and is in collaboration with Robert Siegler at Teacher’s College, Columbia University.<\/p>\n Executive Function in Math.<\/strong>This project uses individual difference paradigms to investigate the roles of different executive functions\u2014working memory, inhibition, and shifting\u2014in math problem solving. The project is led by Qiushan Liu.<\/p>\n Explicit Instruction in Math.<\/strong>The goal of this project is to evaluate different approaches to explicit instruction in math, focusing specifically on fraction arithmetic. The project tests for interactions between two instructional factors: explaining procedures and interleaving practice. This project is in collaboration with Garret Hall in the FSU College of Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Queen of the Sciences Lab investigates reasoning and mathematical cognition among children and adults, using correlational and experimental methods and formal cognitive modeling. Current projects Informal Reasoning and Argumentation. This project investigates informal reasoning and argumentation from a cognitive perspective. It addresses questions such as “How does the effectiveness of arguments depend on the … Continue reading Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psy.fsu.edu\/~braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psy.fsu.edu\/~braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psy.fsu.edu\/~braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psy.fsu.edu\/~braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psy.fsu.edu\/~braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/psy.fsu.edu\/~braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/psy.fsu.edu\/~braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psy.fsu.edu\/~braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psy.fsu.edu\/~braithwaite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Previous projects<\/h3>\n