Background: Arithmetical skills are essential to the effective exercise of citizenship in a
numerate society. How these skills are acquired, or fail to be acquired, is of great importance …

There is evidence to suggest that animals, young infants and adult humans possess a
biologically determined, domain-specific representation of number and of elementary …

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 …

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 …

We are cognitive scientists—a linguist and a psychologist—each with a long-standing
passion for the beautiful ideas of mathematics. As specialists within a field that studies the …

Six-month-old infants discriminate between large sets of objects on the basis of numerosity
when other extraneous variables are controlled, provided that the sets to be discriminated …

The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but
this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being" blank slates" that …

The Handbook of Epistemic Cognition brings together leading work from across disciplines
to provide a comprehensive overview of an increasingly important topic: how people …

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken
now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as …

This longitudinal study explored the importance of kindergarten measures of phonological
awareness, working memory, and quantity–number competencies (QNC) for predicting …