The Use of a Computer Display Exaggerates the Connection Between Education and Approximate Number Ability in Remote Populations

Piazza et al. reported a strong correlation between education and approximate number sense (ANS) acuity in a remote Amazonian population, suggesting that symbolic and nonsymbolic numerical thinking mutually enhance one another over in mathematics instruction. But Piazza et al. ran their task using a...

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Main Authors: Edward Gibson, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Roger Levy, Steven Piantadosi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2017-12-01
Series:Open Mind
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Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/OPMI_a_00016