In-Press
Hutchison JE*, Tabrizian B*, Bajnauth N, Avdellas A, Phillips D, Lyons IM (in press). A Meta-Analysis of the Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Relations between Executive Functioning and Math in Early Childhood. Journal of Numerical Cognition. PDF
2025
Grabowska, A.A., Daker, R.J., Ho, K., Lyons, I.M. (2025). An Integrated Approach to Understanding Negative Math Experiences. Psychological Research, 89(2), doi: 10.1007/s00426-025-02096-2. PDF
Fioriti, C.M., Pizzie, R.G., Evans, T.M., Green, A.E., Lyons, I.M. (2025). Math Anxiety and Arithmetic Learning: Evidence for Impaired Procedural Learning and Enhanced Retrieval Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, doi: 10.1037/xlm0001453 PDF
2024
Martell, R.N., Daker, R.J., Sokolowski, H.M., Ansari, D., & Lyons, I.M. (2024). Implications of neural integration of math and spatial experiences for math ability and math anxiety. Psychological Research, 89 (34). PDF
Slipenkyj MS, Hutchison J, Ansari D, Lyons IM* & Bugden S* (2024). Ordinal processing differences between children with persistent dyscalculia and typically performing children. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. Advance online publication. * Co-senior authors. PDF
Delage V, Daker RJ, Trudel G, Lyons IM & Maloney EA (2024). It Is a “Small World”: Relations Between Performance on Five Spatial Tasks and Five Mathematical Tasks in Undergraduate Students. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. Advance online publication. PDF
Fioriti CM, Martell RN, Daker RJ, Malone EP, Sokolowski HM, Green AE, Levine SC, Maloney EA, Ramirez G & Lyons IM (2024). Examining the interplay between the cognitive and emotional aspects of gender differences in spatial processing. Journal of Intelligence, 12(3):30. PDF
Johnson AD, Partika A, Martin A, Lyons IM, Castle S & Phillips DA (2024). Public preschool predicts stronger third-grade academic skills. AERA Open, 10(1):1-16 PDF
2023
Daker RJ, Viskontas IV, Porter GF, Colaizzi GA, Lyons IM & Green AE (2023). Investigating links between creative anxiety, creative performance, and state-level anxiety and effort during creative thinking. Scientific Reports, 13(1):17095 PDF
Skagenholt M, Lyons IM, Skagerlund K & Traff U (2023). Connectome based predictive modeling indicates dissociable neurocognitive mechanisms for numerical order and magnitude processing in children. Neuropsychologia, 184:108563. PDF
Daker RJ, Gattas SU, Necka EA, Green AE, Lyons IM (2023). Does Anxiety Explain Why Math-Anxious People Underperform in Math? npj Sci. Learn, 8(6) PDF
Daker RJ, Slipenkyj MS, Green AE & Lyons IM (2023). Evidence for avoidance tendencies linked to anxiety about specific types of thinking. Scientific Reports, 13(1):3294. PDF
Li, T, Quintero, M, Galvan, M, Shanafelt, S, Hasty, LM, Spangler, DP, Lyons, IM, Mazzocco, MM, Brockmole, JR, Hart, SA, & Wang, Z (2023). The mediating role of attention in the association between math anxiety and math performance: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Educational Psychology. 115(2):229. PDF
2022
Hutchison JE, Ansari D, Zheng S, De Jesus S & Lyons IM (2022). Extending ideas of numerical order beyond the count-list from kindergarten to first grade. Cognition, 223:105019. PDF
Daker RJ, Delage V, Maloney EA & Lyons IM (2022). Testing the specificity of links between anxiety and performance within mathematics and spatial reasoning. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1512(1):174-91. PDF
2021
Daker RJ, Gattas SU, Sokolowski HM, Green AE & Lyons IM (2021). First-year students’ math anxiety predicts STEM avoidance and underperformance throughout university, independently of math ability. NPJ: Science of Learning, 6(1):17. PDF
2020
Ren Z*, Daker RJ*, Shi L*, Sun J, Beaty RE, Wu X, Chen Q, Lyons IM, Green AE^ & Qiu J^ (2020) Connectome-Based Predictive Modeling of Creativity Anxiety. NeuroImage. * Co-first authors. ^ Co-senior authors. PDF
Daker RJ, Cortes RA, Lyons IM* & Green AE* (2020). Creativity Anxiety: Evidence for Anxiety Specific to Creative Thinking from STEM to the Arts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(1):43-57. *Co-senior authors. PDF
Hutchison JE, Ansari D, Zheng S, De Jesus S & Lyons IM (2020). The relation between subitizable symbolic and non-symbolic number processing over the kindergarten school year. Developmental Science. 23(2):e12884. PDF
2019
Sokolowski HM, Hawes Z & Lyons IM (2019). What explains sex differences in math anxiety? A closer look at the role of spatial processing. Cognition, 182:193-212. PDF
Tiberghien K, De Smedt B, Fias W & Lyons IM (2019). Distinguishing between Cognitive Explanations of the Problem Size Effect in Mental Arithmetic via Representational Similarity Analysis of fMRI Data. Neuropsychologia, 132:107120. PDF
Tiberghien K, Sahan MI, De Smedt B, Fias W & Lyons IM (2019). Disentangling neural sources of problem-size and interference effects in multiplication. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(3):453-67. PDF
2018
Daker RJ & Lyons IM (2018). Numerical and Non-numerical Predictors of First Graders’ Number-Line Estimation Ability. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2336. PDF
Hutchison JE, Lyons IM & Ansari D (2018). More Similar than Different: Gender Differences in Children’s Basic Numerical Skills are the Exception not the Rule. Child Development, 90(1):e66-e79 PDF
Lyons IM & Beilock SL (2018). Characterizing the Neural Coding of Symbolic Quantities. NeuroImage, 178:503-18. PDF
Lyons IM, Bugden S, Zheng S, De Jesus S & Ansari D (2018). Symbolic Number Skills Predict Growth in Nonsymbolic Number Skills in Kindergarteners. Developmental Psychology, 54(3):440-57. PDF
Lyons IM*, Ramirez G*, Maloney EA, Rendina DN, Levine SC & Beilock SL (2018). Spatial Anxiety: A novel questionnaire with subscales for measuring three aspects of spatial anxiety. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 4(3):526-53. *Co-first authors. PDF.
Necka EA, Faig KE, Van Hedger K, Lyons IM, Dimitroff SJ, Luhmann M, Puts DA & Norman GJ (2018). Women's attention to and memory for fertile- and non-fertile phase women across the menstrual cycle. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 4(3), 283-305. PDF
2017
Sasanguie D, Lyons IM, De Smedt B & Reynvoet B (2017). Unpacking symbolic number comparison and its relation with arithmetic in adults. Cognition, 165:26-38. PDF
Vogel SE, Haigh T, Sommerauer G, Spindler M, Brunner C, Lyons IM & Grabner RH (2017). Processing the order of symbolic numbers: a reliable and unique predictor of arithmetic fluency. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 3(2), 288-308. PDF
2016
Ansari D & Lyons IM (2016). Cognitive Neuroscience and Mathematics Learning: How far have we come? Where do we need to go? ZDM Mathematics Education, 48(3): 379-383. PDF
Lyons IM, Vogel S & Ansari D (2016). On the Ordinality of Numbers: A review of neural and behavioral studies. Progress in Brain Research, 227:187-221. PDF
2015
Lyons IM & Ansari D (2015). Foundations of children's numerical and mathematical skills: The roles of symbolic and nonsymbolic representations of numerical magnitude. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 48:93-116. PDF
Wang Z, Lukowski SL, Hart SA, Lyons IM, Thompson LA, Kovas Y, Mazzocco MM, Plomin R & Petrill SA (2015). Is Math Anxiety Always Bad for Math Learning? The Role of Math Motivation. Psychological Science, 26(12):1863-76. PDF
Lyons IM (2015). Numbers and Number Sense. In: Wright JD, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 17(2): 46-56. Oxford: Elsevier. PDF
Lyons IM & Ansari D (2015). Numerical Order Processing in Children: From reversing the distance-effect to predicting arithmetic. Mind, Brain and Education, 9(4):207-21. PDF
Lyons IM, Nuerk HC & Ansari D (2015). Rethinking the Implications of Numerical Ratio Effects for Understanding the Development of Representational Precision and Numerical Processing across Formats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(5): 1021-35. PDF
Necka EA, Sokolowski HM & Lyons IM (2015). The role of self-math overlap in understanding math anxiety and the relation between math anxiety and math performance. 6:1543 PDF
Lyons IM, Ansari D & Beilock SL (2015). Qualitatively different coding of symbolic and nonsymbolic numbers in the human brain. Human Brain Mapping, 36(2): 475-88. PDF
2014
Lyons IM, Price GR, Vaessen A, Blomert L & Ansari D (2014). Numerical Predictors of Arithmetic Success in Grades 1-6. Developmental Science, 17(5):714-26. PDF
Lyons IM, Huttenlocher J & Ratliff KR (2014). The influence of cue-reliability and cue-representation on spatial reorienting in young children. Journal of Cognition and Development, 15(3):402-13. PDF
Wang Z, Hart S, Kovas Y, Lukowski S, Soden B, Thompson L, Plomin R, McLoughlin G, Lyons IM & Petrill S (2014). Who’s Afraid of Math? Two Sources of Genetic Variance for Mathematical Anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55(9):1056-64. PDF
2013
Lyons IM & Beilock SL (2013). Ordinality and the Nature of Symbolic Numbers. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(43):17052-61. PDF
2012
Lyons IM & Beilock SL (2012). Mathematics Anxiety: Separating the math from the anxiety. Cerebral Cortex, 22(9):2102-10. PDF
Lyons IM, Ansari D & Beilock SL (2012). Symbolic Estrangement: Evidence against a strong association between numerical symbols and the quantities they represent. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(4):635-41. PDF
Lyons IM & Beilock SL (2012). When Math Hurts: Math anxiety predicts pain network activation in anticipation of doing math. PLoS: ONE, 7(10):e48076. PDF
2011
Lyons IM & Beilock SL (2011). Numerical ordering ability mediates the relation between number-sense and arithmetic competence. Cognition, 121(2):256-61. PDF
2010
Lyons IM, Mattarella-Micke A, Cieslak M, Nusbaum HC, Small SL & Beilock SL (2010). The role of personal experience in the neural processing of action-related language. Brain & Language, 112(3):214-22. PDF
2009
Lyons IM & Beilock SL (2009). Beyond Quantity: Individual Differences in Working Memory and the Ordinal Understanding of Numerical Symbols. Cognition, 113(2):189-204. PDF
Lyons IM & Ansari D (2009). The Cerebral Basis of Mapping Nonsymbolic Numerical Quantities onto Abstract Symbols: An fMRI training study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(9):1720-35. PDF
2008
Beilock SL & Lyons IM (2008). Expertise and the mental simulation of action. In: Markman KD, Klein WMP, Suhr JA (Eds.), The Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation, Psychology Press. PDF
Beilock SL, Lyons IM, Mattarella-Micke A, Nusbaum HC & Small SL (2008). Sports experience changes the neural processing of action language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(36):13269-73. PDF
2007
Ansari D*, Lyons IM*, van Eimeren L & Xu F (2007). Linking visual attention and number processing in the brain: The role of the temporoparietal junction in small and large number processing, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(11):1845-53. PDF
