Innate Number Sense: Baby Math Is More Powerful Than You Might Think
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 18:20
in Psychology & Sociology
The difference between 1 and 2 and 101 and 102 is the same, yet children perceive 1 and 2 as being much farther apart, because two is twice as much as one. It takes years of education to recognize that the numbers in both sets are only one integer apart on a number line. But a new paper shows that different is not necessarily weaker and educated adults retain traces of their childhood number sense — and that innate ability is more powerful than recognized. read more