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Alejandra Carboni is a pioneering educational researcher whose work sits at the intersection of cognitive development, computational thinking, and early childhood education. Her research has made significant contributions to understanding how young children — particularly preschoolers — develop foundational computational thinking (CT) skills, and how these relate to broader cognitive abilities. Carboni's most influential work, "Cognitive abilities and computational thinking at age 5" (2021, 59 citations), established important empirical links between early CT skills, sequencing abilities, and symbolic number comparison, offering rigorous developmental evidence in a field that previously lacked it. Building on this foundation, her 2022 study (35 citations) demonstrated how educational robotics interventions can meaningfully foster CT in preschool-aged children, with children's task engagement emerging as a key factor in learning outcomes. Her earlier work in 2019 laid important groundwork by designing and testing robot-based intervention programs tailored for young learners. Taken together, Carboni's research has helped legitimize CT education in the earliest years of schooling, providing both theoretical grounding and practical tools for educators. Her cumulative impact — nearly 110 citations across these three studies alone — reflects growing international recognition of her contributions to early STEM education research.