David Ansari
Biographic Data
| ID | 341108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ansari |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Ansari |
| SIGNATURE | ANSARI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7625-618X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Travel at the end of life
This article examines how travel figures into the coordination of end‐of‐life care. Drawing on interviews with palliative care professionals at two hospitals in the Paris region and the author's own family's experience of planning a last journey for an ageing grandfather between Pakistan and the United States, it explores the ethical, logistical and temporal dimensions of end‐of‐life travel. Palliative professionals supporting immigrant patients …
A Comparison of Different Methods for Measuring Individual Change in Kindergarten Children
Measuring progress in students is an important consideration when making decisions in education, clinical practice, and research. However, change due to learning over time at the group level cannot be applied to interpret individual change. Therefore, the current study compared four methods for measuring individual change: reliable change index controlling for practice effects (RCI), standardized individual difference (SID), estimated standardize…
Implications of neural integration of math and spatial experiences for math ability and math anxiety
Domain specificity of mastery-motivation-related behaviours in relation to Singaporean preschoolers’ mathematical performance
Early cognitive predictors of language, literacy, and mathematics outcomes in the primary grades
Recently, cross-domain research has shown that some early predictors of language, reading, and mathematics overlap and predict one another. This study investigated how early cognitive predictors across domains could predict future academic skills across domains using data from 563 students in kindergarten to second grade (ages 5 to 8; 288 males; largely monolingual English). The roles of verbal, symbolic, and magnitude comparison skills as predic…
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability
Extending ideas of numerical order beyond the count-list from kindergarten to first grade
Number symbols are processed more automatically than nonsymbolic numerical magnitudes
Are number symbols (e.g., 3) and numerically equivalent quantities (e.g., •••) processed similarly or distinctly? If symbols and quantities are processed similarly then processing one format should activate the processing of the other. To experimentally probe this prediction, we assessed the processing of symbols and quantities using a Stroop-like paradigm. Participants (NStudy1 = 80, NStudy2 = 63) compared adjacent arrays of symbols (e.g., 4444 …
Therapeutic Apprenticeship
Introduction to the special issue 'Therapeutic Apprenticeship: Uncovering Truth and Performing Responsibility', guest edited by David Ansari and Amy Cooper
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
Paper Patients
This article analyses a seemingly mundane feature of a mental health centre for immigrants and refugees in Paris: the documents used by budding therapists undertaking their apprenticeships. Supervisors developed these documents in order to train therapist apprentices to learn the explanatory models of patients, identify the voice of patients, and incorporate medical anthropology into their therapeutic practice. The documents were central to the e…
Domain-general and domain-specific influences on emerging numerical cognition
Cracking the code of place value
Place value, which underlies the meanings of multidigits, encompasses the principle of position and base-10 rules. To understand 65, one needs to know that the digits 6 and 5 occupy different positions and thus represent ordered values of different magnitudes (i.e., the principle of position) and that the value of each position is determined by base-10 rules (i.e., the rightmost position is 100, followed by 101, 102, etc.). Without the principle …
Kindergarteners’ symbolic number abilities predict nonsymbolic number abilities and math achievement in grade 1
Research has shown that two different, though related, ways of representing magnitude play foundational roles in the development of numerical and mathematical skills: a nonverbal approximate number system and an exact symbolic number system. While there have been numerous studies suggesting that the two systems are important predictors of math achievement, there has been substantial debate regarding whether and how these basic numerical competenc…
What explains the relationship between spatial and mathematical skills? A review of evidence from brain and behavior
The Psychological Science Accelerator
Concerns about the veracity of psychological research have been growing. Many findings in psychological science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings or populations. Crowdsourced research, a type of large-scale collaboration in which one or more research projects are conducted across multiple lab sites, offers a pragmatic solution t…
Symbolic number skills predict growth in nonsymbolic number skills in kindergarteners
There is currently considerable discussion about the relative influences of evolutionary and cultural factors in the development of early numerical skills. In particular, there has been substantial debate and study of the relationship between approximate, nonverbal (approximate magnitude system [AMS]) and exact, symbolic (symbolic number system [SNS]) representations of number. Here we examined several hypotheses concerning whether, in the earlie…
Developing and Modeling Complex Social Interventions
Objectives: Modeling the processes involved in complex social interventions is important in social work practice, as it facilitates their implementation and translation into different contexts. This article reports the process of developing and modeling the connecting people intervention (CPI), a model of practice that supports people with mental health problems to enhance their social networks. Method: The CPI model was developed through an iter…
Numerical predictors of arithmetic success in grades 1–6
Math relies on mastery and integration of a wide range of simpler numerical processes and concepts. Recent work has identified several numerical competencies that predict variation in math ability. We examined the unique relations between eight basic numerical skills and early arithmetic ability in a large sample ( N = 1391) of children across grades 1–6. In grades 1–2, children's ability to judge the relative magnitude of numerical symbols was m…
Enhancing social networks
People with severe mental health problems such as psychosis have access to less social capital, defined as resources within social networks, than members of the general population. However, a lack of theoretically and empirically informed models hampers the development of social interventions which seek to enhance an individual's social networks. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study, which used ethnographic field methods in six …
How do symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude processing skills relate to individual differences in children's mathematical skills? A review of evidence from brain and behavior
Connecting Education and Cognitive Neuroscience
In recent years there have been growing calls for forging greater connections between education and cognitive neuroscience. As a consequence great hopes for the application of empirical research on the human brain to educational problems have been raised. In this article we contend that the expectation that results from cognitive neuroscience research will have a direct and immediate impact on educational practice are shortsighted and unrealistic…
Mapping numerical magnitudes onto symbols
Enhancing social networks
People with severe mental health problems such as psychosis have access to less social capital, defined as resources within social networks, than members of the general population. However, a lack of theoretically and empirically informed models hampers the development of social interventions which seek to enhance an individual's social networks. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study, which used ethnographic field methods in six …
Developing and Modeling Complex Social Interventions
Objectives: Modeling the processes involved in complex social interventions is important in social work practice, as it facilitates their implementation and translation into different contexts. This article reports the process of developing and modeling the connecting people intervention (CPI), a model of practice that supports people with mental health problems to enhance their social networks. Method: The CPI model was developed through an iter…
Connecting Education and Cognitive Neuroscience
In recent years there have been growing calls for forging greater connections between education and cognitive neuroscience. As a consequence great hopes for the application of empirical research on the human brain to educational problems have been raised. In this article we contend that the expectation that results from cognitive neuroscience research will have a direct and immediate impact on educational practice are shortsighted and unrealistic…
Symbolic number skills predict growth in nonsymbolic number skills in kindergarteners
There is currently considerable discussion about the relative influences of evolutionary and cultural factors in the development of early numerical skills. In particular, there has been substantial debate and study of the relationship between approximate, nonverbal (approximate magnitude system [AMS]) and exact, symbolic (symbolic number system [SNS]) representations of number. Here we examined several hypotheses concerning whether, in the earlie…
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
Kindergarteners’ symbolic number abilities predict nonsymbolic number abilities and math achievement in grade 1
Research has shown that two different, though related, ways of representing magnitude play foundational roles in the development of numerical and mathematical skills: a nonverbal approximate number system and an exact symbolic number system. While there have been numerous studies suggesting that the two systems are important predictors of math achievement, there has been substantial debate regarding whether and how these basic numerical competenc…
Mapping numerical magnitudes onto symbols
Connecting Education and Cognitive Neuroscience
In recent years there have been growing calls for forging greater connections between education and cognitive neuroscience. As a consequence great hopes for the application of empirical research on the human brain to educational problems have been raised. In this article we contend that the expectation that results from cognitive neuroscience research will have a direct and immediate impact on educational practice are shortsighted and unrealistic…
How do symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude processing skills relate to individual differences in children's mathematical skills? A review of evidence from brain and behavior
Numerical predictors of arithmetic success in grades 1–6
Math relies on mastery and integration of a wide range of simpler numerical processes and concepts. Recent work has identified several numerical competencies that predict variation in math ability. We examined the unique relations between eight basic numerical skills and early arithmetic ability in a large sample ( N = 1391) of children across grades 1–6. In grades 1–2, children's ability to judge the relative magnitude of numerical symbols was m…
Enhancing social networks
People with severe mental health problems such as psychosis have access to less social capital, defined as resources within social networks, than members of the general population. However, a lack of theoretically and empirically informed models hampers the development of social interventions which seek to enhance an individual's social networks. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study, which used ethnographic field methods in six …
Developing and Modeling Complex Social Interventions
Objectives: Modeling the processes involved in complex social interventions is important in social work practice, as it facilitates their implementation and translation into different contexts. This article reports the process of developing and modeling the connecting people intervention (CPI), a model of practice that supports people with mental health problems to enhance their social networks. Method: The CPI model was developed through an iter…
The Psychological Science Accelerator
Concerns about the veracity of psychological research have been growing. Many findings in psychological science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings or populations. Crowdsourced research, a type of large-scale collaboration in which one or more research projects are conducted across multiple lab sites, offers a pragmatic solution t…
Symbolic number skills predict growth in nonsymbolic number skills in kindergarteners
There is currently considerable discussion about the relative influences of evolutionary and cultural factors in the development of early numerical skills. In particular, there has been substantial debate and study of the relationship between approximate, nonverbal (approximate magnitude system [AMS]) and exact, symbolic (symbolic number system [SNS]) representations of number. Here we examined several hypotheses concerning whether, in the earlie…
What explains the relationship between spatial and mathematical skills? A review of evidence from brain and behavior
Domain-general and domain-specific influences on emerging numerical cognition
Cracking the code of place value
Place value, which underlies the meanings of multidigits, encompasses the principle of position and base-10 rules. To understand 65, one needs to know that the digits 6 and 5 occupy different positions and thus represent ordered values of different magnitudes (i.e., the principle of position) and that the value of each position is determined by base-10 rules (i.e., the rightmost position is 100, followed by 101, 102, etc.). Without the principle …
Kindergarteners’ symbolic number abilities predict nonsymbolic number abilities and math achievement in grade 1
Research has shown that two different, though related, ways of representing magnitude play foundational roles in the development of numerical and mathematical skills: a nonverbal approximate number system and an exact symbolic number system. While there have been numerous studies suggesting that the two systems are important predictors of math achievement, there has been substantial debate regarding whether and how these basic numerical competenc…
Extending ideas of numerical order beyond the count-list from kindergarten to first grade
Number symbols are processed more automatically than nonsymbolic numerical magnitudes
Are number symbols (e.g., 3) and numerically equivalent quantities (e.g., •••) processed similarly or distinctly? If symbols and quantities are processed similarly then processing one format should activate the processing of the other. To experimentally probe this prediction, we assessed the processing of symbols and quantities using a Stroop-like paradigm. Participants (NStudy1 = 80, NStudy2 = 63) compared adjacent arrays of symbols (e.g., 4444 …
Therapeutic Apprenticeship
Introduction to the special issue 'Therapeutic Apprenticeship: Uncovering Truth and Performing Responsibility', guest edited by David Ansari and Amy Cooper
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
Paper Patients
This article analyses a seemingly mundane feature of a mental health centre for immigrants and refugees in Paris: the documents used by budding therapists undertaking their apprenticeships. Supervisors developed these documents in order to train therapist apprentices to learn the explanatory models of patients, identify the voice of patients, and incorporate medical anthropology into their therapeutic practice. The documents were central to the e…
White matter correlates of reading subskills in children with and without reading disability
Domain specificity of mastery-motivation-related behaviours in relation to Singaporean preschoolers’ mathematical performance
Early cognitive predictors of language, literacy, and mathematics outcomes in the primary grades
Recently, cross-domain research has shown that some early predictors of language, reading, and mathematics overlap and predict one another. This study investigated how early cognitive predictors across domains could predict future academic skills across domains using data from 563 students in kindergarten to second grade (ages 5 to 8; 288 males; largely monolingual English). The roles of verbal, symbolic, and magnitude comparison skills as predic…
A Comparison of Different Methods for Measuring Individual Change in Kindergarten Children
Measuring progress in students is an important consideration when making decisions in education, clinical practice, and research. However, change due to learning over time at the group level cannot be applied to interpret individual change. Therefore, the current study compared four methods for measuring individual change: reliable change index controlling for practice effects (RCI), standardized individual difference (SID), estimated standardize…
Implications of neural integration of math and spatial experiences for math ability and math anxiety
Travel at the end of life
This article examines how travel figures into the coordination of end‐of‐life care. Drawing on interviews with palliative care professionals at two hospitals in the Paris region and the author's own family's experience of planning a last journey for an ageing grandfather between Pakistan and the United States, it explores the ethical, logistical and temporal dimensions of end‐of‐life travel. Palliative professionals supporting immigrant patients …
Psychology (21 works) · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (14 works) · Cognition (9 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (7 works) · Arithmetic (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works)