[HTML][HTML] The symbol grounding problem revisited: A thorough evaluation of the ANS mapping account and the proposal of an alternative account based on symbol …

B Reynvoet, D Sasanguie - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Recently, a lot of studies in the domain of numerical cognition have been published
demonstrating a robust association between numerical symbol processing and individual …

Sampling from the mental number line: How are approximate number system representations formed?

M Inglis, C Gilmore - Cognition, 2013 - Elsevier
Nonsymbolic comparison tasks are commonly used to index the acuity of an individual's
Approximate Number System (ANS), a cognitive mechanism believed to be involved in the …

Challenging the neurobiological link between number sense and symbolic numerical abilities

ED Wilkey, D Ansari - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A significant body of research links individual differences in symbolic numerical abilities,
such as arithmetic, to number sense, the neurobiological system used to approximate and …

The symbol-grounding problem in numerical cognition: A review of theory, evidence, and outstanding questions.

T Leibovich, D Ansari - Canadian Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Comment les symboles numériques, tels que des mots exprimant un nombre, acquièrent-ils
leur sens? Cette question, ou «problème du fondement des symboles», est au cœur du …

[HTML][HTML] Symbolic number comparison is not processed by the analog number system: Different symbolic and non-symbolic numerical distance and size effects

A Krajcsi, G Lengyel, P Kojouharova - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
HIGHLIGHTS We test whether symbolic number comparison is handled by an analog noisy
system. Analog system model has systematic biases in describing symbolic number …

Numerals do not need numerosities: Robust evidence for distinct numerical representations for symbolic and non-symbolic numbers

M Marinova, D Sasanguie, B Reynvoet - Psychological Research, 2021 - Springer
In numerical cognition research, it has traditionally been argued that the processing of
symbolic numerals (eg, digits) is identical to the processing of the non-symbolic …

[HTML][HTML] The source of the symbolic numerical distance and size effects

A Krajcsi, G Lengyel, P Kojouharova - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Human number understanding is thought to rely on the analog number system (ANS),
working according to Weber's law. We propose an alternative account, suggesting that …

The approximate number system is not predictive for symbolic number processing in kindergarteners

D Sasanguie, E Defever, B Maertens… - Quarterly journal of …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The relation between the approximate number system (ANS) and symbolic number
processing skills remains unclear. Some theories assume that children acquire the …

Measuring the approximate number system

C Gilmore, N Attridge, M Inglis - Quarterly Journal of …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent theories in numerical cognition propose the existence of an approximate number
system (ANS) that supports the representation and processing of quantity information …

The relation between ANS and symbolic arithmetic skills: The mediating role of number-numerosity mappings

TTY Wong, CSH Ho, J Tang - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2016 - Elsevier
While recent meta-analyses have supported a positive relation between the Approximate
Number System and math achievement (eg, Chen & Li, 2014), the mechanism of this …