The successful learning and performance of mathematics relies on a range of individual,
social and educational factors. Recent research suggests that executive function skills …

Many studies tested the association between numerical magnitude processing and
mathematics achievement, but results differ depending on the number format used. For …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

A visual scene is perceived in terms of visual objects. Similar ideas have been proposed for
the analogous case of auditory scene analysis, although their hypothesized neural …

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from
complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all …

Humans and non-human primates share an elemental quantification system that resides in a
dedicated neural network in the parietal and frontal lobes. In this cortical network,'number …

Children use numbers every day and typically receive formal mathematical training from an
early age, as it is a main subject in school curricula. Despite an increase in children …

Although there has been much recent attention to young children's development of
executive function and early mathematics, few studies have integrated the two. Here we …

Most of us use numbers daily for counting, estimating quantities or formal mathematics, yet
despite their importance our understanding of the brain correlates of these processes is still …

Attaching meaning to arbitrary symbols (ie words) is a complex and lengthy process. In the
case of numbers, it was previously suggested that this process is grounded on two early pre …