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Bugden, Stephanie; Ansari, Daniel – Developmental Science, 2016
In the present study we examined whether children with Developmental Dyscalculia (DD) exhibit a deficit in the so-called "Approximate Number System" (ANS). To do so, we examined a group of elementary school children who demonstrated persistent low math achievement over 4 years and compared them to typically developing (TD), aged-matched…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Children, Spatial Ability, Short Term Memory
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McCrink, Koleen; Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Dehaene, Stanislas; Pica, Pierre – Developmental Science, 2013
Much research supports the existence of an Approximate Number System (ANS) that is recruited by infants, children, adults, and non-human animals to generate coarse, non-symbolic representations of number. This system supports simple arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, and ordering of amounts. The current study tests whether an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Number Systems, Arithmetic, American Indians