Edward Hubbard

I am an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, the Neuroscience Training Program, and at the Waisman Center, where I conduct neuroimaging and behavioral studies of school-aged children and adults in the emerging field of educational neuroscience. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison, I received training in the methods and theories of cognitive science and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley (BA) and the University of California, San Diego (MA and PhD). I then held a post-doctoral appointment at INSERM in France where I used methods of cognitive neuroscience (including functional MRI and EEG) to explore the neural basis of numerical and mathematical abilities, especially the mental number line, in typically developing adults. Inspired by the idea that the neural circuits we observed in adults were the result of a lifetime of educational experiences I took a second post-doc at Vanderbilt University, where I examined how the earliest stages of formal mathematics education shape brain circuits as children begin to link Arabic number symbols with their underlying quantity semantics during the early school years (K-3rd grade).