Research
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Latest papers
Testing the emergentist theory of number perception throughout development.
Cognitive psychology · 2026 · senior author
Domain generality is an emergent, not inherent, property of metacognition.
Nature human behaviour · 2026 · senior author
Evidence for a Low Number Prior in Children's Intuitive Number Sense.
Child development · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $26,527
The role of surprise and prediction in early math education
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $160,000
The role of long-term experience in the development and use of the visual number sense
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $125,000
The psychophysics of number, time, and space
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
20 publications.
Testing the emergentist theory of number perception throughout development.
Long MN, Rashidi K, Odic D
Domain generality is an emergent, not inherent, property of metacognition.
Baer C, Ghetti S, Odic D
Evidence for a Low Number Prior in Children's Intuitive Number Sense.
Long MN, Odic D
Do Young Children Use Verbal Disfluency as a Cue to Their Own Confidence?
West E, Baer C, Yu L, Odic D
Children dynamically update and extend the interface between number words and perceptual magnitudes.
Dramkin D, Odic D
Effects of spatial frequency cross-adaptation on the visual number sense.
Bonn CD, Odic D
Effects of Robotics Education on Young Children's Cognitive Development: a Pilot Study with Eye-Tracking.
Liu Y, Odic D, Tang X, Ma A, Laricheva M, Chen G, Wu S, Niu M, Guo Y, Milner-Bolotin M
Visual numerosity perception shows no advantage in real-world scenes compared to artificial displays.
Odic D, Oppenheimer DM
The malleable impact of non-numeric features in visual number perception.
Dramkin D, Bonn CD, Baer C, Odic D
Mini managers: Children strategically divide cognitive labor among collaborators, but with a self-serving bias.
Baer C, Odic D
The role of surprise and prediction in early math education
Principal investigators: Odic, Darko
Keywords: mathematics; prediction; core cognition; development
The role of long-term experience in the development and use of the visual number sense
Principal investigators: Odic, Darko
Keywords: visual number sense; bayesian models of perception; deep neural networks; experience; real-world scenes; development; internal noise; external noise; computational models; priors
The psychophysics of number, time, and space
Principal investigators: Odic, Darko
Measuring individual and developmental differences in confidence
Principal investigators: Odic, Darko
Keywords: (1) confidence; (2) cognitive development; (3) individual differences; (4) education; (5) mathematics learning; (6) language; (7) social psychology; (8) evaluation; (9) number; (10) cognition
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Darko Odic and Toni Schmader: 1 shared paper
- Darko Odic and Carolyn Baer: 1 shared paper
- Darko Odic and Yan Liu: 1 shared paper
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- UBC Department of Psychology
- Education
- Other
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