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Mundy, Eleanor; Gilmore, Camilla K. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
When children learn to count and acquire a symbolic system for representing numbers, they map these symbols onto a preexisting system involving approximate nonsymbolic representations of quantity. Little is known about this mapping process, how it develops, and its role in the performance of formal mathematics. Using a novel task to assess…
Descriptors: Symbols (Mathematics), Young Children, Concept Mapping, Cognitive Development
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Ventura, Paulo; Kolinsky, Regine; Pattamadilok, Chotiga; Morais, Jose – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2008
The influence of orthography on children's online auditory word recognition was studied from the end of Grade 4 to the end of Grade 9 by examining the orthographic consistency effect in auditory lexical decision. Fourth-graders showed evidence of a widespread influence of orthography in their spoken word recognition system; words with rimes that…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Grade 4, Grade 9, Influences