We review recent empirical findings and arguments proffered as evidence that educated
adults solve elementary addition problems (3+ 2, 4+ 1) using so-called compacted …

Highlights•Verbal and quantity mechanisms are differently engaged by multiplication and
subtraction.•Recruitment of quantity mechanisms by multiplication is associated with smaller …

Previous research has established that finger counting in arithmetic positively correlates with
accuracy in 5 ½ to 8-year-old children. Whether this relation also exists in younger children …

Arithmetic development is characterized by strategy shifts between procedural strategy use
and fact retrieval. This study is the first to explicitly investigate children's neural activation …

In this longitudinal study, we aimed at determining whether children who efficiently use
finger counting are more likely to develop internalized arithmetic strategies than children …

Do mathematical symbols evoke spatial representations? Although behavioral studies have
long demonstrated interactions between space and the processing of Arabic digits, how to …

In an experiment, 98 children aged 8 to 9, 10 to 12, and 13 to 15 years solved addition
problems with a sum up to 10. In another experiment, the same children solved the same …

Our study on 328 five‐to six‐year‐old kindergarteners (mainly White European living in
France, 152 girls) shows that children who do not count on their fingers and undergo finger …

There is a growing awareness that many children are not developing fast and accurate
retrieval-based strategies for solving single-digit addition problems. In this study we …

In this study, we show that 6-year-old children with high working memory capacity are more
likely to use their fingers in an addition task than children with lower capacity. Moreover and …