Shannon Rosbotham. Image: UCD
While the spatial-maths link is well established in the literature we still know relatively little about why the two domains are related.
Shannon Rosbotham is a PhD candidate in the School of Psychology at University College Dublin (UCD) studying the intersection of developmental cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
She completed her BSc in psychology at Queen’s University Belfast before moving to Dublin to complete an MSc in behavioural neuroscience at UCD.
“I am intrigued by how environmental factors can induce structural neurological change in the body and promotes neuroplasticity. Particularly, I am fascinated by how this knowledge can be extrapolated to teaching complex tasks in an educational setting,” she said.
