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Wang, Yunqi; Geng, Fengji; Hu, Yuzheng; Du, Fenglei; Chen, Feiyan – Cognition, 2013
Experienced mental abacus (MA) users are able to perform mental arithmetic calculations with unusual speed and accuracy. However, it remains unclear whether their extraordinary gains in mental arithmetic ability are accompanied by an improvement in numerical processing efficiency. To address this question, the present study, using a numerical…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Efficiency
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Cassia, Viola Macchi; Picozzi, Marta; Girelli, Luisa; de Hevia, Maria Dolores – Cognition, 2012
While infants' ability to discriminate quantities has been extensively studied, showing that this competence is present even in neonates, the ability to compute ordinal relations between magnitudes has received much less attention. Here we show that the ability to represent ordinal information embedded in size-based sequences is apparent at 4…
Descriptors: Evidence, Cues, Neonates, Habituation
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Bijleveld, Erik; Custers, Ruud; Aarts, Henk – Cognition, 2010
While both conscious and unconscious reward cues enhance effort to work on a task, previous research also suggests that conscious rewards may additionally affect speed-accuracy tradeoffs. Based on this idea, two experiments explored whether reward cues that are presented above (supraliminal) or below (subliminal) the threshold of conscious…
Descriptors: Cues, Rewards, Hyperactivity, Experiments
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Canobi, Katherine H.; Bethune, Narelle E. – Cognition, 2008
Three studies addressed children's arithmetic. First, 50 3- to 5-year-olds judged physical demonstrations of addition, subtraction and inversion, with and without number words. Second, 20 3- to 4-year-olds made equivalence judgments of additions and subtractions. Third, 60 4- to 6-year-olds solved addition, subtraction and inversion problems that…
Descriptors: Numbers, Computation, Subtraction, Arithmetic
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Loftus, Andrea M.; Nicholls, Michael E. R.; Mattingley, Jason B.; Bradshaw, John L. – Cognition, 2008
Adaptation to right-shifting prisms improves left neglect for mental number line bisection. This study examined whether adaptation affects the mental number line in normal participants. Thirty-six participants completed a mental number line task before and after adaptation to either: left-shifting prisms, right-shifting prisms or control…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Computation, Control Groups, Cognitive Processes
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Gilmore, Camilla K.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Cognition, 2008
In learning mathematics, children must master fundamental logical relationships, including the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction. At the start of elementary school, children lack generalized understanding of this relationship in the context of exact arithmetic problems: they fail to judge, for example, that 12 + 9 - 9 yields…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Preschool Children, Computation, Problem Solving
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Flombaum, Jonathan I.; Junge, Justin A.; Hauser, Marc D. – Cognition, 2005
Mathematics is a uniquely human capacity. Studies of animals and human infants reveal, however, that this capacity builds on language-independent mechanisms for quantifying small numbers ([less than] 4) precisely and large numbers approximately. It is unclear whether animals and human infants can spontaneously tap mechanisms for quantifying large…
Descriptors: Numbers, Animals, Infants, Arithmetic
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Kobayashi, Tessei; Hiraki, Kazuo; Mugitani, Ryoko; Hasegawa, Toshikazu – Cognition, 2004
Recent studies using a violation-of-expectation task suggest that preverbal infants are capable of recognizing basic arithmetical operations involving visual objects. There is still debate, however, over whether their performance is based on any expectation of the arithmetical operations, or on a general perceptual tendency to prefer visually…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Arithmetic, Infants, Learning Modalities
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Campbell, Jamie I. D. – Cognition, 1994
Sixty-four adults were tested on simple addition and multiplication problems presented in Arabic digit or English number-word format. Overall, response times and error rates were much higher with the word format, but more important, presentation format interacted with arithmetic operation and problem size. (DR)
Descriptors: Addition, Adults, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes