Long, I;
Malone, SA;
Tolan, A;
Burgoyne, K;
Heron-Delaney, M;
Witteveen, K;
Hulme, C;
(2016)
The cognitive foundations of early arithmetic skills: It is counting and number judgment, but not finger gnosis, that count.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
, 152
pp. 327-334.
10.1016/j.jecp.2016.08.005.
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Abstract
Following on from ideas developed by Gerstmann, a body of work has suggested that impairments in finger gnosis may be causally related to children’s difficulties in learning arithmetic. We report a study with a large sample of typically developing children (N = 197) in which we assessed finger gnosis and arithmetic along with a range of other relevant cognitive predictors of arithmetic skills (vocabulary, counting, and symbolic and nonsymbolic magnitude judgments). Contrary to some earlier claims, we found no meaningful association between finger gnosis and arithmetic skills. Counting and symbolic magnitude comparison were, however, powerful predictors of arithmetic skills, replicating a number of earlier findings. Our findings seriously question theories that posit either a simple association or a causal connection between finger gnosis and the development of arithmetic skills.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The cognitive foundations of early arithmetic skills: It is counting and number judgment, but not finger gnosis, that count |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.08.005 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.08.005 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher. |
| Keywords: | Arithmetic development; Numerical cognition; Finger gnosis; Symbolic and nonsymbolic magnitude judgment; Counting; Children |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1508515 |
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