Abstract
In the first years of life, children face large amounts of stimulation. Their development entails the need to extract meaning from the scenes around them. Paying attention to numerosity and extracting numerosity is difficult because of its association with other features of the stimulation. Focusing on numerosity requires attention, to enable concentration on the numerical features of stimulation, and at the same time, inhibition, in order to shut out irrelevant (but correlated) aspects of the stimulation. Attention to children’s difficulties and the processes involved appeared in a debate stirred over 50years, which has been revived in recent years. The struggle to learn and deal with competing demands characterizes early development and features the advancement of various skills like math and executive functions. We suggest that development of these skills could be advanced and shaped by appropriate education.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Heterogeneous Contributions to Numerical Cognition |
Subtitle of host publication | Learning and Education in Mathematical Cognition |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 383-398 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780128174142 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2021 |
Keywords
- Attention
- Continuous
- Inhibition
- Number conservation
- Numerical ability
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
- General Neuroscience