The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition
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ISBN-13:
9780198795759
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.01.2017
Seiten:
1216
Autor:
Roi Cohen Kadosh
Gewicht:
1787 g
Format:
261x172x2 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
How do we understand numbers? Do animals and babies have numerical abilities? Why do some people fail to grasp numbers, and how we can improve numerical understanding?
Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy onwards. Numerical cognition is a vibrant area that brings together scientists from different and diverse research areas (e.g., neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, anthropology, education, and neuroscience) using different methodological approaches (e.g., behavioral studies of healthy children and adults and of patients; electrophysiology and brain imaging studies in humans; single-cell neurophysiology in non-human primates, habituation studies in human infants and animals, and computer modeling).
While the study of numerical cognition had been relatively neglected for a long time, during the last decade there has been an explosion of studies and new findings. This has resulted in an enormous advance in our understanding of the neural and cognitive mechanisms of numerical cognition. In addition, there has recently been increasing interest and concern about pupils' mathematical achievement in many countries, resulting in attempts to use research to guide mathematics instruction in schools, and to develop interventions for children with mathematical difficulties.
This handbook brings together the different research areas that make up the field of numerical cognition in one comprehensive and authoritative volume. The chapters provide a broad and extensive review that is written in an accessible form for scholars and students, as well as educationalists, clinicians, and policy makers. The book covers the most important aspects of research on numerical cognition from the areas of development psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and rehabilitation, learning disabilities, human and animal cognition and neuroscience, computational modeling, education and individual differences, and philosophy. Containing more than 60 chapters by leading specialists in their fields, the Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition is a state-of-the-art review of the current literature.
Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy onwards. Numerical cognition is a vibrant area that brings together scientists from different and diverse research areas (e.g., neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, anthropology, education, and neuroscience) using different methodological approaches (e.g., behavioral studies of healthy children and adults and of patients; electrophysiology and brain imaging studies in humans; single-cell neurophysiology in non-human primates, habituation studies in human infants and animals, and computer modeling).
While the study of numerical cognition had been relatively neglected for a long time, during the last decade there has been an explosion of studies and new findings. This has resulted in an enormous advance in our understanding of the neural and cognitive mechanisms of numerical cognition. In addition, there has recently been increasing interest and concern about pupils' mathematical achievement in many countries, resulting in attempts to use research to guide mathematics instruction in schools, and to develop interventions for children with mathematical difficulties.
This handbook brings together the different research areas that make up the field of numerical cognition in one comprehensive and authoritative volume. The chapters provide a broad and extensive review that is written in an accessible form for scholars and students, as well as educationalists, clinicians, and policy makers. The book covers the most important aspects of research on numerical cognition from the areas of development psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and rehabilitation, learning disabilities, human and animal cognition and neuroscience, computational modeling, education and individual differences, and philosophy. Containing more than 60 chapters by leading specialists in their fields, the Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition is a state-of-the-art review of the current literature.
Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy onwards. This handbook brings together the different research areas that make up the vibrant field of numerical cognition in one comprehensive and authoritative volume.
- Section I: Introduction
- 1: Chris J. Budd: Promoting maths to the general public
- 2: Marcus Giaquinto: Philosophy of math
- Section II: human cognition
- 3: Oliver Lindemann and Martin H. Fischer: Cognitive Foundations of Human Number Representations and Mental Arithmetic
- 4: Joseph Tzelgov, Dana Ganor-Stern, Arava Kallai, and Michal Pinhas: Primitives and non-primitives of numerical representations
- 5: Michael Andres and Mauro Pesenti: Finger-based representation of mental arithmetic
- 6: Jean-Philippe van Dijck, Véronique Ginsburg, Luisa Girelli and Wim Gevers: Linking Numbers to Space: From the Mental Number Line towards a Hybrid Account
- 7: Hans-Christoph Nuerk, H.-C., Moeller, and Klaus Willmes: Multi-digit Number Processing: Overview, Conceptual Clarifications, and Language Influences
- 8: Jamie I.D. Cambell: How Abstract is Arithmetic?
- 9: Catherine Thevenot and Pierre Barrouillet: Arithmetic Word Problem Solving and Mental Representations
- 10: Kinga Morsanyi and Denes Szucs: Intuition in mathematical and probabilistic reasoning
- Section III: Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Mathematical and Numerical understanding
- 11: Elizabeth M. Brannon and Joonkoo Park: Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Mathematical and Numerical Understanding
- 12: Christian Agrillo: Numerical and Arithmetic abilities in non-primate species
- 13: Michael J. Beran, Bonnie M. Perdue, and Theodore A. Evans: Monkey Mathematical Abilities
- 14: Koleen McCrink and Wesley Birdsall: Numerical Abilities and Arithmetic in Infancy
- 15: Minna M. Hannula-Sormunen: Spontaneous focusing on numerosity and its relation to counting and arithmetic
- 16: Barbara W. Sarnecka, Meghan C. Goldman, Emily B. Slusser: How Counting Leads to Children's First Representations of Exact, Large Numbers
- 17: Camilla Gilmore: Approximate arithmetic abilities in childhood
- 18: Titia Gebuis and Bert Reynvoet: Numerosity and mathematical development
- 19: Kim Uittenhove and Patrick Lemaire: Numerical Cognition during Cognitive Aging
- Section IV: Culture and Language
- 20: Geoffrey B. Saxe: Culture, Language, and Number
- 21: John N. Towse, Kevin Muldoon, Victoria Simms: Cross-cultural differences in numerical competence
- 22: Yukari Okamoto: Mathematics learning in the USA and Japan: influences of language
- 23: Linda Sturman: What international comparisons such as TIMSS have shown about national differences in mathematics, and how these might be explained
- Section V: Neuroscience of Mathematics
- 24: Roi Cohen Kadosh: Neuroscience
- 25: Andreas Nieder: Single-cell neurophysiology in monkeys
- 26: Liane Kaufmann, Karin Kucian, and Michael von Aster: The development of the numerical brain
- 27: Vinod Menon: Arithmetic in the child and adult brain
- 28: Ian D. Holloway and Daniel Ansari: Numerical Symbols: An Overview of Their Cognitive and Neural Underpinnings
- 29: Vincent Walsh: A theory of magnitude (ATOM) re-evaluat
Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy onwards. This handbook brings together the different research areas that make up the vibrant field of numerical cognition in one comprehensive and authoritative volume.