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| Title |
Education Enhances the Acuity of the Nonverbal Approximate Number System
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| Published in |
Psychological Science, April 2013
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| DOI | 10.1177/0956797612464057 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Manuela Piazza, Pierre Pica, Véronique Izard, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Stanislas Dehaene |
| Abstract |
All humans share a universal, evolutionarily ancient approximate number system (ANS) that estimates and combines the numbers of objects in sets with ratio-limited precision. Interindividual variability in the acuity of the ANS correlates with mathematical achievement, but the causes of this correlation have never been established. We acquired psychophysical measures of ANS acuity in child and adult members of an indigene group in the Amazon, the Mundurucú, who have a very restricted numerical lexicon and highly variable access to mathematics education. By comparing Mundurucú subjects with and without access to schooling, we found that education significantly enhances the acuity with which sets of concrete objects are estimated. These results indicate that culture and education have an important effect on basic number perception. We hypothesize that symbolic and nonsymbolic numerical thinking mutually enhance one another over the course of mathematics instruction. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 33% |
| Italy | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| France | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 1 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 292 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Hungary | 2 | <1% |
| South Africa | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 272 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 84 | 29% |
| Researcher | 52 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 40 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 27 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 4% |
| Other | 46 | 16% |
| Unknown | 30 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 167 | 57% |
| Social Sciences | 20 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 20 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 5% |
| Linguistics | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 18 | 6% |
| Unknown | 46 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 September 2016.
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#6,076,127
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#3,138
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#50,696
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#87
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