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A developmental model of number representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2009

Karin Kucian  and
Liane Kaufmann
Karin Kucian
Affiliation:
MR-Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland. [email protected]
Liane Kaufmann
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria. [email protected]
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Abstract

We delineate a developmental model of number representations. Notably, developmental dyscalculia (DD) is rarely associated with an all-or-none deficit in numerosity processing as would be expected if assuming abstract number representations. Finally, we suggest that the “generalist genes” view might be a plausible – though thus far speculative – explanatory framework for our model of how number representations develop.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 3-4 , August 2009 , pp. 340 - 341
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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