Neurocognitive start-up tools for symbolic number representations.

New Directions in Vector Space Models of Meaning

Symbolic approaches have dominated NLP as a means to model syntactic and semantic aspects of natural language. While powerful inferential tools exist for such models, they suffer from an inability to capture correlation between words and to provide a continuous model for word, phrase, and document similarity. Distributed representations are one mechanism to overcome these constraints. This tuto...

The role of the left intraparietal sulcus in the relationship between symbolic number processing and children's arithmetic competence

The neural foundations of arithmetic learning are not well understood. While behavioral studies have revealed relationships between symbolic number processing and individual differences in children's arithmetic performance, the neurocognitive mechanisms that bind symbolic number processing and arithmetic are unknown. The current fMRI study investigated the relationship between children's brain ...

The foundations of numerical and mathematical abilities: A literature review

We constantly use numbers in our everyday lives, from estimating how long it will take us to get from A to B to being able to use numerical information to make financial decision. How do we acquire these numerical and mathematical skills? The present paper reviews evidence from studies with animals, infants, children and adults using both neuroscientific and behavioral methods (such as the meas...

INCAS Neurocognitive Laboratory Four Years of Intensive Efforts to Build up Experimental Understructures for Human Subjects in Iran

The developmental onset of symbolic approximation: beyond nonsymbolic representations, the language of numbers matters

Symbolic (i.e., with Arabic numerals) approximate arithmetic with large numerosities is an important predictor of mathematics. It was previously evidenced to onset before formal schooling at the kindergarten age (Gilmore et al., 2007) and was assumed to map onto pre-existing nonsymbolic (i.e., abstract magnitudes) representations. With a longitudinal study (Experiment 1), we show, for the first...