Mazzocco, Michele M., Ph.D.

Professor
Director, Math Skills Development Project

Main Office Address

School of Education
Johns Hopkins University
2800 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland  21218

Email:  mazzocco@jhu.edu

Education

Professional Interests

Cognitive development during the preschool through school age years, particularly in the areas of number concepts, mathematical ability, language acquisition, and learning disability.  My research programs concern typical and atypical development; and the study of the cognitive phenotype of Turner syndrome.

Selected Publications

Raches, D., & Mazzocco, M.M.M. (in press) The emergence and trajectory of mathematical difficulties in young children with Barth syndrome. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.

Mazzocco M.M.M., Feigenson L., & Halberda, J.. (2011) Preschoolers’ Precision of the Approximate Number System Predicts Later School Mathematics Performance.  PLoS One  

Mazzocco MMM, Feigenson L, & Halberda J. (2011) Impaired acuity of the approximate number system underlies mathematical learning disability.  Child Development, 82, 1224-1237.

D. Berch & M.M.M. Mazzocco (Eds.), Why is Math So Hard for Some Children? The Nature and Origins of Mathematical Learning Difficulties and Disabilities.Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishers.

MMM Mazzocco & JL Ross (Eds.) (2007). Neurogenetic Developmental Disorders:  Variation of Manifestation in Childhood.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.