The lab at MCLS 2026 in Padua

Members of the lab travelled to Padua in June for the annual meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS).

Charlotte Constant-Varlet and Morgane Papillon each presented their doctoral research as posters.

Jérôme Prado gave a talk together with Catherine Thevenot (University of Lausanne) introducing the automatized counting theory of mental arithmetic (the proposal that children’s arithmetic fluency emerges through the progressive automatization of counting procedures rather than through the retrieval of memorized facts alone). The theory is set out in full in a recent paper in Developmental Review: Counting on automatization: The automatized counting theory of mental arithmetic.