Staff profile

Research Summary

My research examines how maths skills are learned in typically developing children and in children with learning disabilities (e.g., dyscalculia and dyslexia). I am especially interested in how the brain supports maths learning, and how education shapes the developing brain.

• mathematical cognition
• numeracy
• fMRI
• arithmetic
• reading
• dyscalculia
• dyslexia
• working memory
• intervention
• educational neuroscience

• Anna Matejko - Google Scholar

Journal Article

• Sokolowski, H. Moriah, Matejko, Anna A. & Ansari, Daniel (2023). The role of the angular gyrus in arithmetic processing: a literature review. Brain Structure and Function 228(1): 293-304.
• Laws, Marissa L., Matejko, Anna A., Lozano, Melanie, Napoliello, Eileen & Eden, Guinevere F. (2022). Dorsal visual stream activity during coherent motion processing is not related to math ability or dyscalculia. NeuroImage: Clinical 35: 103042.
• Matejko, Anna A., Lozano, Melanie, Schlosberg, Nicole, McKay, Cameron, Core, Lucy, Revsine, Cambria, Davis, Shelby N. & Eden, Guinevere F. (2022). The relationship between phonological processing and arithmetic in children with learning disabilities. Developmental Science
• Brignoni‐Pérez, Edith, Matejko, Anna A., Jamal, Nasheed I. & Eden, Guinevere F. (2021). Functional neuroanatomy of arithmetic in monolingual and bilingual adults and children. Human Brain Mapping 42(15): 4880.
• Matejko, Anna A. & Ansari, Daniel (2021). Shared Neural Circuits for Visuospatial Working Memory and Arithmetic in Children and Adults. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 33(6): 1003.
• Roell, M., Cachia, A., Matejko, A.A., Houdé, O., Ansari, D. & Borst, G. (2021). Sulcation of the intraparietal sulcus is related to symbolic but not non-symbolic number skills. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 51: 100998.
• Torre, G.A., Matejko, A.A. & Eden, G.F (2020). The relationship between brain structure and proficiency in reading and mathematics in children, adolescents, and emerging adults. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 45: 100856.
• Brault Foisy, Lorie‐Marlène, Matejko, Anna A., Ansari, Daniel & Masson, Steve (2020). Teachers as Orchestrators of Neuronal Plasticity: Effects of Teaching Practices on the Brain. Mind, Brain, and Education 14(4): 415.
• Matejko, Anna A., Hutchison, Jane E. & Ansari, Daniel (2019). Developmental specialization of the left intraparietal sulcus for symbolic ordinal processing. Cortex 114: 41.
• Torre, Gabrielle-Ann A., McKay, Cameron C. & Matejko, Anna A. (2019). The Early Language Environment and the Neuroanatomical Foundations for Reading. The Journal of Neuroscience 39(7): 1136.
• Matejko, Anna A. & Ansari, Daniel (2019). The neural association between arithmetic and basic numerical processing depends on arithmetic problem size and not chronological age. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 37: 100653.
• Matejko, Anna A. & Ansari, Daniel (2018). Contributions of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to the study of numerical cognition. Journal of Numerical Cognition 4(3): 505.
• Matejko, Anna A. & Ansari, Daniel (2017). How do individual differences in children's domain specific and domain general abilities relate to brain activity within the intraparietal sulcus during arithmetic? An fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping 38(8): 3941.
• Merkley, Rebecca, Matejko, Anna A. & Ansari, Daniel (2017). Strong causal claims require strong evidence: A commentary on Wang and colleagues. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 153: 163.
• Matejko, Anna A. & Ansari, Daniel (2016). Trajectories of Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Magnitude Processing in the First Year of Formal Schooling. PLOS ONE 11(3): e0149863.
• Merkley, R., Wilkey, E. D. & Matejko, A. A. (2016). Exploring the Origins and Development of the Visual Number Form Area: A Functionally Specialized and Domain-Specific Region for the Processing of Number Symbols? Journal of Neuroscience 36(17): 4659.
• Matejko, Anna A. & Ansari, Daniel (2015). Drawing connections between white matter and numerical and mathematical cognition: A literature review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 48: 35.
• Matejko, Anna (2014). White Matter Counts: Brain Connections Help Us Do 2+2. Frontiers for Young Minds 2.
• Pincham, Hannah L., Matejko, Anna A., Obersteiner, Andreas, Killikelly, Clare, Abrahao, Karina P., Benavides-Varela, Silvia, Gabriel, Florence C., Rato, Joana R. & Vuillier, Laura (2014). Forging a new path for Educational Neuroscience: An international young-researcher perspective on combining neuroscience and educational practices. Trends in Neuroscience and Education 3(1): 28.
• Matejko, Anna A., Price, Gavin R., Mazzocco, Michèle M.M. & Ansari, Daniel (2013). Individual differences in left parietal white matter predict math scores on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test. NeuroImage 66: 604.