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Szkudlarek, Emily; Brannon, Elizabeth M. – Language Learning and Development, 2017
In this article we first review evidence for the approximate number system (ANS), an evolutionarily ancient and developmentally conservative cognitive mechanism for representing number without language. We then critically review five different lines of support for the proposal that symbolic representations of number build upon the ANS, and discuss…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Symbols (Mathematics), Cognitive Processes, Neurology