{"id":17960,"date":"2026-10-15T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=17960"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:36:27","slug":"cognitive-science-colloquium-october-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2026\/cognitive-science-colloquium-october-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Science Colloquium \nOctober 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cognitive Science Colloquium \nOctober 21 \n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join us for a Research Talk entitled <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide?<\/strong> The role of early educational practice as a moderator of socio-economic gradients in Mathematics. Our Guest Speaker is DPhil student <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Rosemary O&#8217;Connor<\/em> from Oxford University.<br><br><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">When:<\/strong> Wed Oct 21 from 3:00 &#8211; 4:00 p.m.<br><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Where:<\/strong> DT 2203<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Socioeconomic inequalities in foundational maths skills appear early in development and predict later academic attainment. Despite growing attention to early mathematics within early childhood education and childcare, substantial disparities remain persistent at school entry. Understanding whether and how early educational environments moderate these socio-economic gradients is key to developing effective interventions that reduce rather than amplify educational inequality. This talk presents findings from a mixed-methods study examining &nbsp;how preschool environments relate to mathematics development, and whether these relationships differ for children experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage in a sample of N=445 children aged 3-4 attending preschool in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosie is a DPhil student in Experimental Psychology in the Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development lab. She is supervised by Dr. Gaia Scerif. She has a BSc in Psychology and French from the University of Liverpool and an MSc in Developmental Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. She has worked directly with young children in several teaching and support roles in the past and has most recently been involved in the development and delivery of the ONE programme &#8211; a mathematics and executive function intervention programme for preschool educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her research interests lie at the juxtaposition of Cognitive Psychology, Education and Social Policy, with a particular focus on understanding the preschool environment and working with educators to improve outcomes for at-risk children before the onset of formal schooling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosie is spending the month visiting Carleton to assist the Math Lab in creating resources for early math, inspired by the ONE programme.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socioeconomic inequalities in foundational maths skills appear early in development and predict later academic attainment. Despite growing attention to early mathematics within early childhood education and childcare, substantial disparities remain persistent at school entry. 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