Defining play has plagued researchers and philosophers for years. From describing play as
an inaccessible concept due to its complexity, to providing checklists of features, the field …

A central challenge for cognitive science is to explain how abstract concepts are acquired
from limited experience. This has often been framed in terms of a dichotomy between …

In an effort to promote best practices regarding mathematics teaching and learning at the
preschool level, national advisory panels and organizations have emphasized the …

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from
complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all …

This article provides a synthesis and overview of a theory of cognitive development, rational
constructivism. The basic tenets of this view are as follows:(a) Initial state: Human infants …

Do children learn number words by associating them with perceptual magnitudes? Recent
studies argue that approximate numerical magnitudes play a foundational role in the …

Humans and other species have biologically endowed abilities for discriminating quantities.
A widely accepted view sees such abilities as an evolved capacity specific for number and …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 47 (1) of
Developmental Psychology (see record 2011-00627-019). A coding error resulted in …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

Children's symbolic number sense was examined at the beginning of first grade with a short
screen of competencies related to counting, number knowledge, and arithmetic operations …