Open questions and a proposal: A critical review of the evidence on infant numerical abilities

L Cantrell, LB Smith - Cognition, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Considerable research has investigated infants' numerical capacities. Studies in this domain
have used procedures of habituation, head turn, violation of expectation, reaching, and …

The emergence of children's natural number concepts: Current theoretical challenges

F Sella, E Slusser, D Odic… - Child Development …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Learning the meaning of number words is a lengthy and error‐prone process. In this review,
we highlight outstanding issues related to current accounts of children's acquisition of …

Human infants' preference for left-to-right oriented increasing numerical sequences

MD de Hevia, L Girelli, M Addabbo, V Macchi Cassia - PloS one, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
While associations between number and space, in the form of a spatially oriented numerical
representation, have been extensively reported in human adults, the origins of this …

Small on the left, large on the right: Numbers orient visual attention onto space in preverbal infants

H Bulf, MD de Hevia… - Developmental Science, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Numbers are represented as ordered magnitudes along a spatially oriented number line.
While culture and formal education modulate the direction of this number–space map**, it …

[HTML][HTML] Minds without language represent number through space: origins of the mental number line

MD De Hevia, L Girelli, V Macchi Cassia - Frontiers in Psychology, 2012‏ - frontiersin.org
During the last decades, extensive research has investigated both the developmental
origins and the representational format of numerical information. A crucial contribution to …

[کتاب][B] Numerical cognition

A Knops - 2019‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Numerical Cognition: The Basics provides an understanding of the neural and cognitive
mechanisms that enable us to perceive, process, and memorize numerical information …

From innate spatial biases to enculturated spatial cognition: The case of spatial associations in number and other sequences

K McCrink, MD De Hevia - Frontiers in psychology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Humans, as well as other animals, use space to organize the world. This use of space as an
organizational scaffold is especially prevalent when we conceptualize mathematics, a …

Up or down? Reading direction influences vertical counting direction in the horizontal plane–a cross-cultural comparison

SM Göbel - Frontiers in psychology, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
Most adults and children in cultures where reading text progresses from left to right also
count objects from the left to the right side of space. The reverse is found in cultures with a …

The early construction of spatial attention: Culture, space, and gesture in parent–child interactions

K McCrink, C Caldera, S Shaki - Child Development, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
American and Israeli toddler–caregiver dyads (mean age of toddler= 26 months) were
presented with naturalistic tasks in which they must watch a short video (N= 97) or concoct a …

[کتاب][B] Five pillars of the mind: Redesigning education to suit the brain

T Tokuhama-Espinosa - 2019‏ - books.google.com
From the author of Neuromyths, a revolutionary look at teaching and learning via the logical
pathways of the brain. A review of the research on brain networks reveals, surprisingly, that …