Roberta Barrocas

Member of JRC Neuro-cognitive Plasticity

Roberta Barrocas has been a PhD student and research assistant in the project „Digits grasp digits – Development and evaluation of a digital app for self-regulated training of finger-based numerical strategies“ (principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Korbinian Moeller and Prof. Dr. Caterina Gawrilow) at the IWM since August 2017. Her main research interests concern influences of finger-motor skills on the development of numerical competences in children.

In 2014, Roberta Barrocas graduated from the Federal University of São Paulo (Brazil) with a Master’s degree in Education and Health in Childhood and Adolescence, after studying Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil, 2011). Additionally, she has experience in the diagnosis and remediation of developmental and learning disorders as she worked as a clinical neuropsychologist for two years in Brazil.

Projects

Digits grasp digits – Development and evaluation of a digital app for self-regulated training of finger-based numerical strategies

Articles in refereed Journals

Barrocas, R., Roesch, S., Dresen, V., Moeller, K., & Pixner, S. (in press). Embodied numerical representations and their association with multi-digit arithmetic performance Cognitive Processing.

Proceedings

Barrocas, R., Ninaus, M., Tsarava, K., Gawrilow, C., Lachmair, M., Roesch, S., & Moeller, K. (2019). Digits grasp digits: Numbers on your fingertips. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN19) (pp. 7165-7174). Barcelona, Valencia: IATED Academy.

Chapters in Edited Books

Roesch, S., Barrocas, R., Ladel, S., & Moeller, K. (in press). Zahlen begreifen - wie Finger das Verständnis von Zahlen fördern können. In C. Andrä & M. Macedonia (Eds.), Bewegtes Lernen- ein Handbuch für Forschung und Praxis. Köln: Lehmanns Media.

Conference Contributions

Barrocas, R., & Moeller, K. (2019, November). Zahlen begreifen – Wie uns unsere Finger dabei helfen, Zahlen zu verstehen. Eingeladener Vortrag an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Thurgau. Thurgau, Schweiz. [Vortrag]

Barrocas, R., Ninaus, M., Tsarava, K., Gawrilow, C., Lachmair, M., Roesch, S., & Moeller, K. (2019, July). Digits grasp digits: Numbers on your fingertips. 11th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN19). Palma, Spain. [Talk]

Barrocas, R., Roesch, S., & Moeller, K. (2019, June). Fingers come in handy: does finger use support learning a pseudo-number-word sequence? 2nd Conference of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society. Ottawa, Canada. [Poster]

Barrocas, R., Roesch, S., Dresen, V., Kreilinger, I., Moeller, K., & Pixner, S. (2018, September). Finger-based numerical representations predict preschoolers' cardinal number knowledge longitudinally. Workshop Integrating Educational and Cognitive Perspectives on Mathematics. Tübingen. [Poster]

Barrocas, R., Roesch, S., Dresen, V., Kreilinger, I., Moeller, K., & Pixner, S. (2018, June). The longitudinal influence of fingers on the acquisition of discrete cardinal number knowledge. 3rd Jean Piaget Conference: The origins of number. Geneva, Switzerland. [Poster]

Barrocas, R., Roesch, S., Dresen, V., Moeller, K., & Pixner, S. (2018, January). Different aspects of non-canonical finger patterns and their association with arithmetic performance. 36th European Workshop of Cognitive Neuropsychology. Bressanone, Italy. [Talk]

Bieck, S. M., Barrocas, R., Krauss, D., & Tsarava, K. (2018, July). Wie macht lernen Spaß? Experimente zum spielerischen Lernen. Kinderuni Workshop. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen. [Workshop Organisation]

Software Development

Moeller, K., Gawrilow, C., Barrocas, R., & Lachmair, M. (2018). Fingers_Grasping_Numbers - Touch-Applikation-Prototype for Androids. Tübingen: Leibniz-Wissenschaftscampus II.

contact

Roberta Barrocas

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72076 Tübingen
Room 6.619
phone: +49 7071 979-302
fax: +49 7071 979-124