Lauren Anthony is a PhD candidate in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison co-advised by Martha Alibali and C. Shawn Green. She is interested in human learning, broadly construed, everything from how children and adults engage with patterns in mathematical contexts to individual differences in visuo-motor learning to motivation to persist in cognitive training. Her dissertation research explores novice and expert differences in perceptions of mathematical representations and whether such perceptions predict problem-solving performance. In another line of work, Lauren investigates children’s conceptions of equivalence and relations to algebraic reasoning, particularly children’s understanding that the equal sign licenses substitution.