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Morsanyi, Kinga; Devine, Amy; Nobes, Alison; Szucs, Denes – Developmental Science, 2013
This study examined performance on transitive inference problems in children with developmental dyscalculia (DD), typically developing controls matched on IQ, working memory and reading skills, and in children with outstanding mathematical abilities. Whereas mainstream approaches currently consider DD as a domain-specific deficit, we hypothesized…
Descriptors: Gifted, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Skills, Logical Thinking
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Cherkes-Julkowski, Miriam; And Others – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1991
This study investigated the effects of prompting, or directing/controlling attention, during a reasoning task on the performance of 68 children with attention deficit disorders, learning disabilities, or no handicaps, in grades 1-12. All groups benefited from prompting, and prompting was related to a different set of cognitive processes in each…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Cognitive Processes