How do our attitudes toward math shape our everyday lives and future careers? Learn at the 5th Krakow Seminar with Alessandro Cuder, exploring how math attitudes affect middle school STEM choices 🔢🧠📊 🗓️ Sept 8, 15:30 CET 👇 Link to meeting details in the comments! #MCLL

Kinga Szafron earned a BSc in Cognitive Science with a thesis on the SNARC effect and body position, based on a study conducted with @mateuszhohol.bsky.social and @krzysztofcipora.bsky.social We're proud of Kinga's milestone and keeping our fingers crossed for her next academic successes.🧠🧮🧠🧮🧠🧮

📢 Announcing 4th Krakow Seminar on Mathematical Cognition! This time, @serenarossi.bsky.social from @lborodme.bsky.social will explore how math anxiety impacts arithmetic performance and the individual factors that shape this link. 🗓️ May 12, 15:30 CEST 👇 Link to more details in the comments!

📢 New video series! We’ve launched *“Numerical Cognition”* on @Copernicus 🎥🧠 First episode: Dr. Krzysztof Cipora on how we process multi-digit numbers 📺 [https://youtu.be/FRVYEPCmFhs?si=5SIfAoQu4tWjCgwP](youtu.be/FRVYEPCmFhs?...) More coming soon! 🚀 #MCLL #NumericalCognition #Psychology

Announcing the third Krakow Seminar on Mathematical Cognition! Wed, April 15 at 14:30 CET. Gusts: Andre Knops "Space as the fabric of thought" & Elise Klein: "Language processes in numerical cognition". On Teams: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3683404... Join us!

Amazing news from MCLL! Our lab member Kinga Szafron just received the prestigious Ministry of Science & Higher Education scholarship! 🏅 Huge congratulations to Kinga for this well-deserved recognition of her hard work in math cognition! 🧠🔢👏

Our lab was represented at the TEAP 2026 in Tübingen this week by Martyna Sroka, @krzysztofcipora.bsky.social, and @mateuszhohol.bsky.social, who presented international research🇵🇱🇦🇹🇩🇪🇮🇹 on numerical processing in expert mathematicians🧮🧠. They also discussed next steps within the ErasMAs+ project🇪🇺.

📢 Join us for the 2nd Krakow Seminar on Mathematical Cognition! Prof. Hakan Çetinkaya (Yaşar University ) will explore: "When Do Numbers Become 'Left' and 'Right'?" , discussing how task structure shapes number-space mapping 🧠 More details: mcll.uj.edu.pl/second-krako...

Second Krakow Seminar on Mathematical Cognition with Hakan Çetinkaya - The Mathematical Cognition and Learning Lab (MCLL)

We are pleased to invite to the second session of Krakow Seminar on Mathematical Cognition, a monthly event series hosted by the Mathematical Cognition and

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Last week, MCLL members attended the XXXIV Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teachers and led sessions on how to support students with #MathAnxiety and #Dyscalculia. We're grateful for the dialogue with teachers; bridging research and practice is key! 🧠✨

@krzysztofcipora.bsky.social, @mateuszhohol.bsky.social and Kinga Szafron of MCLL presented new research results on spatial–numerical associations 🔢🧠 at the 44th European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology in Bressanone 🇮🇹 Science, great people, inspiring Dolomites 🏔️

New study by Piotr Szymanek, Magdalena Senderecka & @mateuszhohol.bsky.social is out in 'Psychonomic Bulletin & Review'. Biological motion detection is basic and automatic—but expectations still bias what we see, especially under uncertainty. OA: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

📢 Introducing the monthly Krakow Seminar on Mathematical Cognition! Join us on Tuesday Jan 13th to listen to the talk by Mariagrazia Ranzini from University of Padova on how mathematical expertise shapes our mental representation of numbers 🧠🇮🇹 More details in the comment 👇 #MCLL #MathCognition

Great to see this ambitious large-scale simulation study coming together in our lab! Check out more in Federico’s thread 👇

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We are finishing simulations in Krakow at the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Lab for one of the largest simulation projects comparing mixed-effects models for RTs in Cognitive Science (~1.5M datasets; >7M models). Preregistration: osf.io/3s8cu

Great news—and new challenges ahead! We’ve officially launched an international project dedicated to tackling math anxiety, funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education (KA220-HED). Learn more: mcll.uj.edu.pl/projects/era...

We’re excited to welcome @fdatri.bsky.social from the University of Trieste! 🇮🇹 He joins our lab on a study running 1.5 mln simulations using real experimental data, comparing methods for estimating & detecting effects in reaction-time experiments 📉 Link to preregistration below 👇

We are pleased to announce @krzysztofcipora.bsky.social has joined MCLL as our new co-leader! After 4 years at the University of Tübingen and 5 years at @lborodme.bsky.social, he returns to Jagiellonian University to lead the lab with @mateuszhohol.bsky.social. Welcome to the team!

Our members M. Obidziński & N. Bażela will present tomorrow on long-term memory in math cognition at an online seminar for @lborodme.bsky.social. Join us! Link in the description 👇

Great news! Member of our lab, Julia Klimecka, has been admitted (from the 1st position in the Psychology program!) to the Doctoral School in the Social Sciences of the Jagiellonian University. Congratulations and all the best!

Greetings from Sheffield!👋🧠 We’re at the #ESCOP2025 24th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Excited to share several of our team’s studies—check them out on our website 👉 mcll.edu.pl/activities/c...

We’re excited to share our latest paper, published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience: “Interpreting Insect Behavior Through the Lens of Executive Functions” by Bartosz Baran, Michał Obidziński, and @mateuszhohol.bsky.social. Have a look! doi.org/10.3389/fnbe...

Frontiers | Interpreting insect behavior through the lens of executive functions

Despite miniature brains, insects exhibit flexible, adaptive, and goal-directed responses. Behaviors indicating rule abstraction and complex decision-making ...

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A new paper by Michał Obidziński, Nina Bażela, and @mateuszhohol.bsky.social is out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social. Find "More gist, better math: Fuzzy-trace theory-based investigation of the relationship between long-term memory and mathematical skills" in OA www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

More gist, better math: Fuzzy-trace theory-based investigation of the relationship between long-term memory and mathematical skills

Despite extensive research on the cognitive basis for mathematical activity, the associations between long-term memory and math skills remain relative…

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We just got back from #MCLS2025, where we presented our research on numerical processing in mathematicians and on associations between long-term memory and math skills. Many fantastic talks and conversations with colleagues from around the world @mcls-official.bsky.social @mclstrainee.bsky.social

This weekend, our team gave three talks at the Mathematical Cognition conference in Toruń. We’re returning with a best poster award, a special mention, and plenty of inspiration from great discussions with researchers and practitioners. Thanks to everyone for the insights!

Think you're good at picking random numbers? 🎲 Our "random" choices are shaped by hidden patterns - like favoring small numbers, leaning left on a mental number line, and even being influenced by how we move our bodies in space or how we read. Curious? Stay for more!

Did you know being good at school math doesn’t mean you can use it in real life? 🧮 Market-working kids solve complex math daily but struggle with school tasks—while students ace tests but can’t apply math practically! Bridging this gap is key. Stay for more! 🤓

🔢 Numbers tell two stories: the literal (quantity) and the deeper meaning (context). 📈 A 1% increase might seem small—unless it’s the leap from no risk to some risk. Numeracy & fuzzy-trace theory reveal why both exact and intuitive reasoning matter. 👉 Stay tuned for more!

A preregistered VR study by our lab member Piotr (with J. Nenadalová & N. Van Leeuwen) is out in Psychology of Religion & Spirituality! 🥳 The authors (re) tested whether feeling of threat affects agency detection 👻 OA paper: doi.org/10.1037/rel0... Congrats, Piotr!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Ending 2024 with great news! 🤩 1️⃣ A paper by Kinga Wołoszyn et al. has been published in Emotion! 💟 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 2️⃣ P. Szymanek & M. van Elk's commentary is out in RBB! 🧠 OA paper: doi.org/10.1080/2153... See you in 2025! 💜

We’re always excited to contribute to bridging research and educational practice! 🎓 Nina Bażela recently joined a seminar on diagnosing dyscalculia, sharing insights on a diagnostic tool for assessing math abilities that she's developing as part of the project at the Educational Research Institute.