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Denitza Dramkin; Darko Odic – Developmental Science, 2024
As adults, we represent and think about number, space, and time in at least two ways: our intuitive--but imprecise--perceptual representations, and the slowly learned--but precise--number words. With development, these representational formats interface, allowing us to use precise number words to estimate imprecise perceptual experiences. We test…
Descriptors: Child Development, Numbers, Vocabulary Development, Numeracy
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Cheung, Pierina; Toomey, Mary; Jiang, Yahao Harry; Stoop, Tawni B.; Shusterman, Anna – Developmental Science, 2022
Studies on children's understanding of counting examine when and how children acquire the cardinal principle: the idea that the last word in a counted set reflects the cardinal value of the set. Using Wynn's (1990) Give-N Task, researchers classify children who can count to generate large sets as having acquired the cardinal principle…
Descriptors: Computation, Performance, Number Concepts, Numeracy
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Di Giorgio, Elisa; Lunghi, Marco; Rugani, Rosa; Regolin, Lucia; Dalla Barba, Beatrice; Vallortigara, Giorgio; Simion, Francesca – Developmental Science, 2019
Humans represent numbers on a mental number line with smaller numbers on the left and larger numbers on the right side. A left-to-right oriented spatial-numerical association, (SNA), has been demonstrated in animals and infants. However, the possibility that SNA is learnt by early exposure to caregivers' directional biases is still open. We…
Descriptors: Numbers, Cognitive Processes, Spatial Ability, Neonates
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Smyth, Rachael E.; Ansari, Daniel – Developmental Science, 2020
Research demonstrating that infants discriminate between small (e.g., 1 vs. 3 dots) and large numerosities (e.g., 8 vs. 16 dots) is central to theories concerning the origins of human numerical abilities. To date, there has been no quantitative meta-analysis of the infant numerical competency data. Here, we quantitatively synthesize the evidential…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Numeracy
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Wang, Jinjing; Feigenson, Lisa – Developmental Science, 2019
Children do not understand the meanings of count words like "two" and "three" until the preschool years. But even before knowing the meanings of these individual words, might they recognize that counting is "about" the dimension of number? Here in five experiments, we asked whether infants already associate counting…
Descriptors: Infants, Numeracy, Computation, Numbers
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O'Connor, Patrick A.; Morsanyi, Kinga; McCormack, Teresa – Developmental Science, 2018
Ordinality is a fundamental feature of numbers and recent studies have highlighted the role that number ordering abilities play in mathematical development (e.g., Lyons et al. 2014), as well as mature mathematical performance (e.g., Lyons & Beilock, 2011). The current study tested the novel hypothesis that non-numerical ordering ability, as…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Kibbe, Melissa M.; Feigenson, Lisa – Developmental Science, 2015
The Approximate Number System (ANS) supports basic arithmetic computation in early childhood, but it is unclear whether the ANS also supports the more complex computations introduced later in formal education. "Solving for x" in addend-unknown problems is notoriously difficult for children, who often struggle with these types of problems…
Descriptors: Young Children, Problem Solving, Numbers, Mathematics Skills
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Brooks, Neon; Pogue, Amanda; Barner, David – Developmental Science, 2011
When asked to "find three forks", adult speakers of English use the noun "fork" to identify units for counting. However, when number words (e.g. "three") and quantifiers (e.g. "more", "every") are used with unfamiliar words ("Give me three blickets") noun-specific conceptual criteria are unavailable for picking out units. This poses a problem for…
Descriptors: Children, Language Acquisition, Numeracy, Number Concepts
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Barth, Hilary C.; Paladino, Annie M. – Developmental Science, 2011
How do our mental representations of number change over development? The dominant view holds that children (and adults) possess multiple representations of number, and that age and experience lead to a shift from greater reliance upon logarithmically organized number representations to greater reliance upon more accurate, linear representations.…
Descriptors: Children, Numeracy, Developmental Stages, Computation
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Cordes, Sara; Brannon, Elizabeth M. – Developmental Science, 2008
We review recently published papers that have contributed to our understanding of how the preverbal infant represents number, area and time. We review evidence that infants rely on two distinct systems to represent number nonverbally and highlight the similarities in the ratio-dependent discrimination of number, time and area. Contrary to earlier…
Descriptors: Infants, Competence, Concept Formation, Time
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Mazzocco, Michele M. M.; Devlin, Kathleen T. – Developmental Science, 2008
Many middle-school students struggle with decimals and fractions, even if they do not have a mathematical learning disability (MLD). In the present longitudinal study, we examined whether children with MLD have weaker rational number knowledge than children whose difficulty with rational numbers occurs in the absence of MLD. We found that children…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Numbers, Grade 8, Grade 6
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Wood, Justin N.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Science, 2005
Are abstract representations of number--representations that are independent of the particular type of entities that are enumerated--a product of human language or culture, or do they trace back to human infancy? To address this question, four experiments investigated whether human infants discriminate between sequences of actions (jumps of a…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Infants, Numbers, Visual Stimuli