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Nadja Tschentscher
Graduate Student, Methods Group
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Contact details
| E-mail address: | nadja.tschentscher@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk |
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1223 273725 (extension 330) |
| Fax: | +44 (0)1223 |
| Address: | MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF |
Research areas
In my PhD, supervised by Olaf Hauk, I'm investigating arithmetic problem solving with a multi-modal imaging approach.
By combining fMRI data with EEG and MEG, I investigate the time-course of neural activation within networks of arithmetic processing. I am also interested in individual differences in arithmetic performance: how can it be that highly intelligent people are sometimes very bad at mental calculation? A particular focus of my research is, how key predictors of arithmetic performance (e.g. working memory capacities, knowledge about arithmetic facts and strategies) are related to each other, and in what way highly skilled and less skilled arithmetic problem solvers differ in the underlying neural systems that support these skills.
Tschentscher,N., Hauk,O., Fischer,M.H., and Pulvermuller,F. (in press). You can count on the motor cortex: Finger counting habits modulate motor cortex activation evoked by numbers. NeuroImage.
Tschentscher,N. and Fischer,M.H. (2008). Grasp cueing and joint attention. Experimental Brain Research 190, 493-498.