Bookedited by Avishai Henik, Wim Fias.
Summary: Heterogeneity of Function in Numerical Cognition presents the latest updates on ongoing research and discussions regarding numerical cognition. With great individual differences in the development or function of numerical cognition at neuroanatomical, neuropsychological, behavioral, and interactional levels, these issues are important for the achievement of a comprehensive understanding of numerical cognition, hence its brain basis, development, breakdown in brain-injured individuals, and failures to master mathematical skills. These functions are essential for the proper development of numerical cognition.
Contents:
1. Numbers and language: what's new in the past 25 years?
2. The interplay between learning arithmetic and learning to read: insights from developmental cognitive neuroscience
3. Language and arithmetic: the potential role of phonological processing
4. Discussion: specific contributions of language functions to numerical cognition
5. An introduction to attention and its implacation for numerical cognition
6. The contol of selective attention and emerging mathematical cognition: beyond unidirectional influences
7. Performance control in numerical cognition: insights from strategic variations in arithmetic during the life span
8. The interplay between proficiency and executive control
9. How big is many? Development of spatial and numerical magnitude understanding
10. Is visuospatial reasoning related to early mathematical development? A critical review
11. Neurocognitive evidence for spatial contributions to numerical cognition
12. Which space for numbers?
13. Cognitive interferences and their development in the context of numerical tasks: review and implications
14. The role of executive function skills in the development of children's mathematical competencies
15. Systems neuroscience of mathematical cognition and learning: basic organization and neural sources of heterogeneity in typical and atypical development
16. (How) are executive functions actually related to arithmetic abilities?
17. Numerical cognition and memory (ies)
18. Hypersensitivity-to-interference in memory as a possible cause of difficulty in arithmetic facts storing
19. Working memory for serial order and numerical cognition: what kind of association?
20. Do not forget memory to understand mathematical cognition
Index.