Dr. Fias is a Professor of Experimental Psychology at Ghent University. He is currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Numerical Cognition and has been consulting editor for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition and was an editorial board member of the journal Cognition. He serves regularly as an ad hoc reviewer for all major journals in the domain of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. Dr. Fias has over 100 publications on the topics of numerical cognition, working memory and cognitive control. His research uses behavioral and neuroimaging techniques in a complementary way.

• 1. Core mathematical abilities in infants: number and much moreMaria Dolores de Hevia2. Cognitive and Brain Systems Underlying Early Mathematical DevelopmentDavid Geary3. Individual differences in children’s mathematics achievement: the roles of symbolic processing and domain-general cognitive functionsBert De Smedt4. Foundations of mathematical abilities – towards understanding the neural coding of number in the human brainEvelyn Eger5. Similarity interference in learning and retrieving arithmetic factsAlice De Visscher and Marie-Pascale Noël 6. Neurocomputational foundations of core mathematical abilitiesMarco Zorzi7. The Number Interval Position Effect (NIPE) in the bisection of the mental number line reveals the nonlinear compressed scaling of numerical information: evidence from children, healthy adults and right brain damaged patientsFabrizio Doricchi8. Strategic variations with age during arithmetic problem solving: The role of executive controlPatrick Lemaire9. Evolutionary basis of arithmetical abilitiesBrian Butterworth10. Memory and cognitive control systems and circuits in mathematical cognition and learningVinod Menon11. Brain stimulation and mathematical training: The contribution of core and non-core skillsChung Yen Looi and Roi Cohen Kadosh 12. What causes dyscalculia? The core number module impairment hypothesisManuela Piazza13. Working memory disruption in developmental dyscalculiaDenes Szucs14. Ordinality and the Number Symbol System: Evidence from brain and behaviourDaniel Ansari15. The relationship between core cognitive abilities and early numeracyDaniel C. Hyde