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Kallai, Arava Y.; Henik, Avishai – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Given that both children and adults struggle with fractions in mathematics education, we investigated the processing of nonsymbolic fractions in a continuous form of part-of-the-whole. Continuous features of nonsymbolic numbers (e.g., the size of dots in an array) were found to influence numerosity judgment, but it should be noted that the…
Descriptors: Fractions, Mathematical Concepts, Numbers, Cognitive Processes
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Hochman, Shachar; Cohen, Zahira Z.; Ben-Shachar, Mattan S.; Henik, Avishai – Cognitive Science, 2020
Representations of the fingers are embodied in our cognition and influence performance in enumeration tasks. Among deaf signers, the fingers also serve as a tool for communication in sign language. Previous studies in normal hearing (NH) participants showed effects of embodiment (i.e., embodied numerosity) on tactile enumeration using the fingers…
Descriptors: Deafness, Numbers, Manual Communication, Inhibition