
Heterogeneity of Function in Numerical Cognition
Description
Key Features
- Provides an innovative reference on the emerging field of numerical cognition and the branches that converge on this diverse cognitive domain
- Includes an overview of the multiple disciplines that comprise numerical cognition
- Focuses on factors that influence numerical cognition, such as language, executive attention, memory and spatial processing
- Features an innovative organization with each section providing a general overview, developmental research, and evidence from neurocognitive studies
Readership
Neuroscientists, cognitive neuroscientists, neurophysiologists, neurologists, cognitive and developmental psychologists, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows
Table of Contents
Section I. Language
1. Numbers and language: What’s new in the past 25 years?
2. The interplay between learning arithmetic and learning to read: Insights from developmental cognitive neuroscience
3. Language and arithmetic: The potential role of phonological processing
4. Discussion: Specific contributions of language functions to numerical cognitionSection II. Performance Control and Selective Attention
5. An introduction to attention and its implications for numerical cognition
6. The control of selective attention and emerging mathematical cognition:
7. Performance control in numerical cognition: Insights from strategic variations in arithmetic during the lifespan
8. The interplay between proficiency and executive controlSection III. Spatial Processing and Mental Imagery
9. How big is many? Development of spatial and numerical magnitude understanding
10. Is visuospatial reasoning related to early mathematical development? A critical review
11. Neurocognitive evidence for spatial contributions to numerical cognition
12. Which space for numbers?Section IV. Executive Functions
13. Automatic interferences and their development in the context of numerical tasks
14. The role of executive function skills in the development of children’s mathematical competencies
15. Systems neuroscience of mathematical cognition and learning: basic organization and neural sources of heterogeneity in typical and atypical development
16. (How) are executive functions actually related to arithmetic abilities?Section V. Memory
17. Numerical cognition and memory(ies)
18. Hypersensitivity-to-interference in memory as a possible cause of difficulty in arithmetic facts storing
19. Working memory for serial order and numerical cognition: What kind of association?
20. Don't forget memory ... to understand mathematical cognition
Product details
- No. of pages: 480
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: May 17, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128115299
- eBook ISBN: 9780128115305
About the Editors
Avishai Henik

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Wim Fias

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