Michael Slipenkyj

Mike joined the Psychology department in 2019 to work with Ian Lyons. He received his Bachelors of science with an honors specialization in psychology from the University of Western Ontario. After graduating Mike worked in the Numerical Cognition Laboratory, focusing on the study of symbolic number representation in children and adults using fMRI. Mike is broadly interested in the development of symbolic number processing and how these skills relate to mathematics ability. He is also interested in understanding how other factors (e.g. computational context, math anxiety) influence symbolic number representation and how cognitive neuroscience can be used to improve educational policy.