Ian M. Lyons

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Ian M. Lyons is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Education and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian M. Lyons has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Statistics and Probability, 25 papers in Education and 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ian M. Lyons's work include Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (37 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (22 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (10 papers). Ian M. Lyons is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (37 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (22 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (10 papers). Ian M. Lyons collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Ian M. Lyons's co-authors include Sian L. Beilock, Daniel Ansari, Anniek Vaessen, Leo Blomert, Gavin R. Price, Andrew Mattarella-Micke, Steven L. Small, Howard C. Nusbaum, H. Moriah Sokolowski and Richard J. Daker and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ian M. Lyons

54 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Numerical predictors of arithmetic success in grades 1–6

2014 296 citations Ian M. Lyons, Daniel Ansari et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian M. Lyons United States	28	1.9k	1.5k	1.1k	892	755	58	2.9k
Evelyn H. Kroesbergen Netherlands	35	2.4k 1.3×	2.1k 1.4×	2.0k 1.9×	1.1k 1.3×	756 1.0×	105	4.1k
Ann Dowker United Kingdom	27	2.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	427 0.6×	80	3.4k
Johannes E. H. Van Luit Netherlands	34	2.1k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.6×	611 0.7×	455 0.6×	76	3.3k
Mary K. Hoard United States	27	3.5k 1.8×	2.6k 1.7×	2.5k 2.4×	694 0.8×	476 0.6×	40	4.3k
Orly Rubinsten Israel	23	1.5k 0.8×	988 0.7×	993 0.9×	443 0.5×	647 0.9×	55	2.1k
Melissa E. Libertus United States	30	2.7k 1.5×	2.2k 1.5×	1.5k 1.4×	289 0.3×	859 1.1×	100	3.5k
Marina Vasilyeva United States	24	730 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	434 0.5×	431 0.6×	60	2.8k
Marie‐Pascale Noël Belgium	33	3.7k 2.0×	2.6k 1.7×	2.5k 2.3×	410 0.5×	1.0k 1.4×	107	4.3k
Lara Nugent United States	21	1.9k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	488 0.5×	724 1.0×	33	2.8k
Daniela Lucangeli Italy	27	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	229 0.3×	410 0.5×	77	2.4k

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Sokolowski, H. Moriah, Richard J. Daker, Ian M. Lyons, et al.. (2025). Visual imagery and STEM occupational attainment: Gender matters. Personality and Individual Differences. 250. 113552–113552.

Evans, Tanya M., et al.. (2025). Math anxiety and arithmetic learning: Evidence for impaired procedural learning and enhanced retrieval learning.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 51(12). 1909–1925. 1 indexed citations

Johnson, Anna D., et al.. (2024). Public Preschool Predicts Stronger Third-Grade Academic Skills. AERA Open. 10. 2 indexed citations

Daker, Richard J., H. Moriah Sokolowski, Adam E. Green, et al.. (2024). Examining the Interplay between the Cognitive and Emotional Aspects of Gender Differences in Spatial Processing. Journal of Intelligence. 12(3). 30–30. 1 indexed citations

Daker, Richard J., et al.. (2023). Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?. npj Science of Learning. 8(1). 6–6. 8 indexed citations

Daker, Richard J., et al.. (2023). Evidence for avoidance tendencies linked to anxiety about specific types of thinking. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 3294–3294. 4 indexed citations

Cortes, Robert A., David J. M. Kraemer, Robert A Kolvoord, et al.. (2022). Transfer from spatial education to verbal reasoning and prediction of transfer from learning-related neural change. Science Advances. 8(32). eabo3555–eabo3555. 13 indexed citations

Smedt, Bert De, et al.. (2019). Distinguishing between cognitive explanations of the problem size effect in mental arithmetic via representational similarity analysis of fMRI data. Neuropsychologia. 132. 107120–107120. 2 indexed citations

Lyons, Ian M., et al.. (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. 63 indexed citations

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Daker, Richard J. & Ian M. Lyons. (2018). Numerical and Non-numerical Predictors of First Graders’ Number-Line Estimation Ability. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 2336–2336. 4 indexed citations

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Sasanguie, Delphine, Ian M. Lyons, Bert De Smedt, & Bert Reynvoet. (2017). Unpacking symbolic number comparison and its relation with arithmetic in adults. Cognition. 165. 26–38. 52 indexed citations

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Lyons, Ian M., Stephan Vogel, & Daniel Ansari. (2016). On the ordinality of numbers. Progress in brain research. 227. 187–221. 65 indexed citations

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Necka, Elizabeth A., H. Moriah Sokolowski, & Ian M. Lyons. (2015). The role of self-math overlap in understanding math anxiety and the relation between math anxiety and performance. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1543–1543. 26 indexed citations

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Lyons, Ian M. & Sian L. Beilock. (2013). Ordinality and the Nature of Symbolic Numbers. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(43). 17052–17061. 84 indexed citations

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Lyons, Ian M., Daniel Ansari, & Sian L. Beilock. (2012). Symbolic estrangement: Evidence against a strong association between numerical symbols and the quantities they represent.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 141(4). 635–641. 138 indexed citations

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Lyons, Ian M.. (2011). Biomedical science : lecture notes. Wiley-Blackwell eBooks.

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Lyons, Ian M., et al.. (2011). Evidence against a strong association between numerical symbols and the quantities they represent. Cognitive Science. 33(33).

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Lyons, Ian M. & Sian L. Beilock. (2011). Mathematics Anxiety: Separating the Math from the Anxiety. Cerebral Cortex. 22(9). 2102–2110. 167 indexed citations

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Lyons, Ian M. & Sian L. Beilock. (2009). Beyond quantity: Individual differences in working memory and the ordinal understanding of numerical symbols. Cognition. 113(2). 189–204. 54 indexed citations

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Lyons, Ian M., Andrew Mattarella-Micke, Matthew Cieslak, et al.. (2009). The role of personal experience in the neural processing of action-related language. Brain and Language. 112(3). 214–222. 61 indexed citations

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