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.
Barrocas, R., Ninaus, M., Tsarava, K., Gawrilow, C., Lachmair, M., Roesch, S., & Moeller, K. (in press). 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.
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, 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., 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., 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]
Roberta Barrocas
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