- Reader (Associate Professor) in Psychology, University of York
Silke is a Reader at the Department of Psychology, University of York (UK), and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Special Needs Education at the University of Oslo, Norway. In York, she leads the Numerical Cognition Lab and directs the MSc in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Her main areas of research include early predictors of later mathematical development, linguistic influences on number processing and arithmetic, associations between representations of space and number, mathematical difficulties and the neural bases of number processing and arithmetic. She has co-authored a textbook giving an Introduction to Mathematical Cognition.
Experience
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2020–presentReader in Psychology, University of York, UK
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2015–2020Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of York, UK
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2005–2015Lecturer in Psychology, University of York, UK
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2002–2005Junior Research Fellow in Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Education
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2003University of Oxford, UK, D.Phil. (Experimental Psychology)
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1999J. W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, Diplom-Psychologin
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