Humans and other species have biologically endowed abilities for discriminating quantities.
A widely accepted view sees such abilities as an evolved capacity specific for number and …

Do children learn number words by associating them with perceptual magnitudes? Recent
studies argue that approximate numerical magnitudes play a foundational role in the …

The third edition of this significant and groundbreaking book summarizes current research
into how young children learn mathematics and how best to develop foundational …

The 21st century allows the use of e-books to substitute printed books in educational
context, thereby adapt teaching and learning to the potentialities of our digital era. Several …

Numbers are present in every part of modern society and the human capacity to use
numbers is unparalleled in other species. Understanding the mental and neural …

Where and under what conditions do spatial and numerical skills converge and diverge in
the brain? To address this question, we conducted a meta-analysis of brain regions …

On a now orthodox view, humans and many other animals possess a “number sense,” or
approximate number system (ANS), that represents number. Recently, this orthodox view …

Number sense, the ability to estimate numerosity, is observed in naïve animals, but how this
cognitive function emerges in the brain remains unclear. Here, using an artificial deep …

Recently, a lot of studies in the domain of numerical cognition have been published
demonstrating a robust association between numerical symbol processing and individual …

The last decade has seen a rapid growth in our understanding of the cognitive systems that
underlie mathematical learning and performance, and an increased recognition of the …