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Varma, Sashank; Schwartz, Daniel L. – Cognition, 2011
Mathematics has a level of structure that transcends untutored intuition. What is the cognitive representation of abstract mathematical concepts that makes them meaningful? We consider this question in the context of the integers, which extend the natural numbers with zero and negative numbers. Participants made greater and lesser judgments of…
Descriptors: Numbers, Logical Thinking, Number Concepts, Learning
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Wilburn, Catherine; Feeney, Aidan – Cognition, 2008
In a recently published study, Sloutsky and Fisher [Sloutsky, V. M., & Fisher, A.V. (2004a). When development and learning decrease memory: Evidence against category-based induction in children. "Psychological Science", 15, 553-558; Sloutsky, V. M., & Fisher, A. V. (2004b). Induction and categorization in young children: A similarity-based model.…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Logical Thinking, Classification, Experimental Psychology