ArticleDevelopmental science2014
Understanding the mapping between numerical approximation and number words: evidence from Williams syndrome and typical development.
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- Research on the mechanism of the influence of family socioeconomic status on the Cardinal principle of young children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- How does Family Socioeconomic Status influence Children's Cardinality Principle? The chain mediation roles of Approximate Number System and Receptive Vocabulary Skills.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Executive Function and young children's Cardinality Principle: the mediating role of the Approximate Number System and the moderating role of age.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Quantity as a Fish Views It: Behavior and Neurobiology.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2022Review
- Probing the mechanisms underlying numerosity-to-numeral mappings and their relation to math competence.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Approximate Number Sense in Students With Severe Hearing Loss: A Modality-Neutral Cognitive Ability.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Understanding Number Line Estimation in Williams Syndrome and Down Syndrome.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- Effects of Visual Training of Approximate Number Sense on Auditory Number Sense and School Math Ability.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Eye Movement Patterns and Approximate Number Sense Task Performance in Williams Syndrome and Down Syndrome: A Developmental Perspective.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
- Numerical Processing Impairment in 22q11.2 (LCR22-4 to LCR22-5) Microdeletion: A Cognitive-Neuropsychological Case Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Comparing Numerical Comparison Tasks: A Meta-Analysis of the Variability of the Weber Fraction Relative to the Generation Algorithm.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Geometric and featural systems, separable and combined: Evidence from reorientation in people with Williams syndrome.Cognition · 2015Article
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All numerate humans have access to two systems of number representation: an exact system that is argued to be based on language and that supports formal mathematics, and an Approximate Number System (ANS) that is present at birth and appears independent of language. Here we examine the interaction between these two systems by comparing the profiles of people with Williams syndrome (WS) with those of typically developing children between ages 4 and 9 years. WS is a rare genetic deficit marked by fluent and well-structured language together with severe spatial deficits, deficits in formal math, and abnormalities of the parietal cortex, which is thought to subserve the ANS. One of our tasks, requiring approximate number comparison but no number words, revealed that the ANS precision of adolescents with WS was in the range of typically developing 2- to 4-year-olds. Their precision improved with age but never reached the level of typically developing 6- or 9-year-olds. The second task, requiring verbal number estimation using number words, revealed that the estimates produced by adolescents with WS were comparable to those of typically developing 6- and 9-year-olds, i.e. were more advanced than their ANS precision. These results suggest that ANS precision is somewhat separable from the mapping between approximate numerosities and number words, as the former can be severely damaged in a genetic disorder without commensurate impairment in the latter.
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