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Kong, Michelle Nga Ki; Chan, Winnie Wai Lan – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study explored whether kindergarteners who had yet to learn about multi-digit numbers at school could automatically process the underlying magnitudes, i.e., place-values, represented by the digits in a multi-digit number. A place-value Stroop task showed a pair of price tags in each trial. Each price tag contained a three-digit number, of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Cognitive Processes, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills
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Matthews, Percival G.; Lewis, Mark R. – Cognitive Science, 2017
Although many researchers theorize that primitive numerosity processing abilities may lay the foundation for whole number concepts, other classes of numbers, like fractions, are sometimes assumed to be inaccessible to primitive architectures. This research presents evidence that the automatic processing of nonsymbolic magnitudes affects processing…
Descriptors: Numbers, Numeracy, Color, Interference (Learning)