https://bbl-lab.fr/tag/conferences/ConferencesHugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)en-usThu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bbl-lab.fr/media/icon_hu2773242459398709177.pnghttps://bbl-lab.fr/tag/conferences/https://bbl-lab.fr/post/mcls-2026-padua/Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bbl-lab.fr/post/mcls-2026-padua/<p>Members of the lab travelled to Padua in June for the annual meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS).</p> <p>Charlotte Constant-Varlet and Morgane Papillon each presented their doctoral research as posters.</p> <p>Jérôme Prado gave a talk together with Catherine Thevenot (University of Lausanne) introducing the automatized counting theory of mental arithmetic (the proposal that children&rsquo;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 <em>Developmental Review</em>: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2026.101252" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Counting on automatization: The automatized counting theory of mental arithmetic</a>.</p>