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Megan Merrick

Mathematics · Indiana University

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Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skillsEducation, Achievement, and GiftednessChild and Animal Learning DevelopmentMathematics Education and Teaching TechniquesLanguage Development and Disorders

Publications

20

Citations

290

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

12

Publishing since 2015

Research summary
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Megan Merrick studies how children and adults learn and reason, with a focus on how young children infer the meaning of new words by combining different sources of information. Related work examines how infants use social signals (such as others' surprise) to update their expectations, as well as broader questions about how people define what counts as mathematics. The research often draws on methods from developmental and cognitive psychology.

Cognitive development in childrenWord learning and language acquisitionReasoning and inference in infants and adultsMathematical cognition and skillsOnline methods for developmental research

Publication activity has been steady across the decade with a modest increase in the most recent years (three to four per year since 2024).

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently
172018: 1 publication182019: 2 publications192020: 1 publication202021: 2 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 3 publications242025: 4 publications4252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Contemporary Educational Psychology×2
  • Frontiers in Psychology×1
  • Educational Psychologist×1
  • Nature Human Behaviour×1
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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