Measuring Mathematical Skills in Early Childhood: a Systematic Review of the Psychometric Properties of Early Maths Assessments and Screeners

LA Outhwaite, P Aunio, JKY Leung… - Educational Psychology …, 2024 - Springer
Successful early mathematical development is vital to children's later education,
employment, and wellbeing outcomes. However, established measurement tools are …

Can neural networks do arithmetic? a survey on the elementary numerical skills of state-of-the-art deep learning models

A Testolin - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Creating learning models that can exhibit sophisticated reasoning abilities is one of the
greatest challenges in deep learning research, and mathematics is rapidly becoming one of …

Diverse mathematical knowledge among indigenous Amazonians

DM O'Shaughnessy, T Cruz Cordero… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We investigate number and arithmetic learning among a Bolivian indigenous people, the
Tsimane', for whom formal schooling is comparatively recent in history and variable in both …

The cultural origins of symbolic number.

DM O'Shaughnessy, E Gibson… - Psychological review, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
It is popular in psychology to hypothesize that representations of exact number are innately
determined—in particular, that biology has endowed humans with a system for manipulating …

[HTML][HTML] Creating ad hoc graphical representations of number

S Holt, JE Fan, D Barner - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
The ability to communicate about exact number is critical to many modern human practices
spanning science, industry, and politics. Although some early numeral systems used 1-to-1 …

Number and domain both affect the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement: A study of children's executive function with and without …

I Starling-Alves, LL Russell-Lasalandra… - Developmental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Magnitude processing and executive functions (EFs) have emerged as robust predictors of
mathematics achievement. However, the nature of these associations is still unclear. For …

Mental shop** calculations: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study

M Klichowski, G Kroliczak - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
One of the most critical skills behind consumer's behavior is the ability to assess whether a
price after a discount is a real bargain. Yet, the neural underpinnings and cognitive …

The use of number words in natural language obeys Weber's law.

L Rinaldi, M Marelli - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
It has been suggested that the origins of number words can be traced back to an
evolutionarily ancient approximate number system, which represents quantities on a …

The history of number words in the world's languages—what have we learnt so far?

AS Calude - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
For over 100 years, researchers from various disciplines have been enthralled and occupied
by the study of number words. This article discusses implications for the study of deep …

[HTML][HTML] A new ontology for numerical cognition: Integrating evolutionary, embodied, and data informatics approaches

F Soylu - Acta Psychologica, 2024 - Elsevier
Numerical cognition is a field that investigates the sociocultural, developmental, cognitive,
and biological aspects of mathematical abilities. Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience …