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Williams, Katherine; Zax, Alexandra; Patalano, Andrea L.; Barth, Hilary – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Number line estimation (NLE) tasks are widely used to investigate numerical cognition, learning, and development, and as an instructional tool. Interpretation of these tasks generally involves an implicit expectation that responses are driven by the overall magnitudes of target numerals, in the sense that the particular digits conveying those…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Computation, Young Children, Adults
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Pinhas, Michal; Pothos, Emmanuel M.; Tzelgov, Joseph – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
The representation of numbers is commonly viewed as an ordered continuum of magnitudes, referred to as the "mental number line." Previous work has repeatedly shown that number representations evoked by a given task can be easily altered, yielding an ongoing discussion about the basic properties of the mental number line and how malleable…
Descriptors: Evidence, Numbers, Number Concepts, Number Systems