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What is the precise role of cognitive control in the development of a sense of number?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2017

Rebecca Merkley ,
Gaia Scerif  and
Daniel Ansari
Rebecca Merkley
Affiliation:
Numerical Cognition Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada rebecca.merkley@gmail.com daniel.ansari@uwo.ca http://www.numericalcognition.org/
Gaia Scerif
Affiliation:
Attention, Brain, and Cognitive Development Group, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom gaia.scerif@psy.ox.ac.uk https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/attention-brain-and-cognitive-development-group
Daniel Ansari
Affiliation:
Numerical Cognition Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada rebecca.merkley@gmail.com daniel.ansari@uwo.ca http://www.numericalcognition.org/
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Abstract

The theory put forward by Leibovich et al. of how children acquire a sense of number does not specify the mechanisms through which cognitive control plays a role in this process. We argue that visual attention and number word knowledge influence each other over development and contribute to the development of the concept of number.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e179
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