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Newcombe, Nora S.; Levine, Susan C.; Mix, Kelly S. – Grantee Submission, 2015
There are many continuous quantitative dimensions in the physical world. Philosophical, psychological and neural work has focused mostly on space and number. However, there are other important continuous dimensions (e.g., time, mass). Moreover, space can be broken down into more specific dimensions (e.g., length, area, density) and number can be…
Descriptors: Correlation, Spatial Ability, Numbers, Teaching Methods
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Iuculano, Teresa; Tang, Joey; Hall, Charles W. B.; Butterworth, Brian – Developmental Science, 2008
There are two different conceptions of the innate basis for numerical abilities. On the one hand, it is claimed that infants possess a "number module" that enables them to construct concepts of the exact numerosities of sets upon which arithmetic develops (e.g. Butterworth, 1999 ; Gelman & Gallistel, 1978). On the other hand, it has been proposed…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numeracy, Arithmetic, Information Processing