
Heterogeneous Contributions to Numerical Cognition
Learning and Education in Mathematical Cognition
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Key Features
- A novel innovative reference on the emerging field of numerical cognition and neurodevelopment underlying mathematical education
- Includes an overview of the multiple disciplines that comprise numerical cognition written by world-leading researchers in the numerical cognition and neurodevelopment fields
- Features an innovative organization with each section providing a general overview, developmental research, neurocognitive mechanisms, and discussion about relevant studies
Readership
Neuroscientists, cognitive neuroscientists, neurophysiologists, educators, education researchers, neurologists, cognitive and developmental psychologists, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows
Table of Contents
1. From quantical to numerical cognition: A crucial passage for understanding the nature of mathematics and its origins
SECTION I Advanced mathematics, reasoning and problem solving
2. Toward an inhibitory control theory of the reasoning brain in development
3. Maths and logic: Relationships across development
4. Cerebral underpinning of advanced mathematical activitySECTION II Math education
5. Looking at the development of mathematical knowledge from the perspective of the framework theory approach to conceptual change: Lessons for mathematics education
6. Subtraction by addition: A remarkably natural and clever way to subtract?
7. Probing the neural basis rational numbers: The role of inhibitory control and magnitude representations
8. Learning and education in numerical cognition: We do need educationSECTION III Intervention studies
9. Supporting early numeracy: The role of spontaneous mathematical focusing tendencies in learning and instruction
10. Developmental course of numerical learning problems
in children and how to prevent dyscalculia: A summary of the longitudinal examination of children from kindergarten to secondary school
11. Neurocognitive mechanisms of numerical intervention studies: The case of brain stimulation
12. Intervention studies in math: A metareviewSECTION IV Math deficiencies and difficulties
13. The complex pathways toward the development of math anxiety and links with achievements
14. What predicts the development of fact retrieval speed and calculation accuracy in children with (and without) arithmetic disabilities (AD). What can we learn from longitudinal studies?
15. Early neurocognitive development of dyscalculia
16. Early difficulties in numerical cognition
Product details
- No. of pages: 422
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: May 27, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128174159
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128174142
About the Editors
Wim Fias

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Avishai Henik

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