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The first comprehensive review of this topic in many years, providing a much needed text in the field of psychology
Brings together leading researchers from a range of fields including, psychology, neuroscience, education, cultural psychology, and philosophy
Explores the psychological and neural bases of numberical cognition, and also explores the problems some people have with maths, hence spanning both research and clinical domains



How do we understand numbers? Do animals and babies have numerical abilities? Why do some people fail to grasp numbers, and how we can improve numerical understanding?
Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy onwards. Numerical cognition is a vibrant area that brings together scientists from different and diverse research areas (e.g., neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, anthropology, education, and neuroscience) using different methodological approaches (e.g., behavioral studies of healthy children and adults and of patients; electrophysiology and brain imaging studies in humans; single-cell neurophysiology in non-human primates, habituation studies in human infants and animals, and computer modeling).
While the study of numerical cognition had been relatively neglected for a long time, during the last decade there has been an explosion of studies and new findings. This has resulted in an enormous advance in our understanding of the neural and cognitive mechanisms of numerical cognition. In addition, there has recently been increasing interest and concern about pupils´ mathematical achievement in many countries, resulting in attempts to use research to guide mathematics instruction in schools, and to develop interventions for children with mathematical difficulties.

This handbook brings together the different research areas that make up the field of numerical cognition in one comprehensive and authoritative volume. The chapters provide a broad and extensive review that is written in an accessible form for scholars and students, as well as educationalists, clinicians, and policy makers. The book covers the most important aspects of research on numerical cognition from the areas of development psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and rehabilitation, learning disabilities, human and animal cognition and neuroscience, computational modeling, education and individual differences, and philosophy. Containing more than 60 chapters by leading specialists in their fields, the Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition is a state-of-the-art review of the current literature.



Table of Contents
Section I: Introduction
1: Promoting maths to the general public, Chris J. Budd
2: Philosophy of math, Marcus Giaquinto
Section II: human cognition
3: Cognitive Foundations of Human Number Representations and Mental Arithmetic, Oliver Lindemann and Martin H. Fischer
4: Primitives and non-primitives of numerical representations, Joseph Tzelgov, Dana Ganor-Stern, Arava Kallai, and Michal Pinhas
5: Finger-based representation of mental arithmetic, Michael Andres and Mauro Pesenti
6: Linking Numbers to Space: From the Mental Number Line towards a Hybrid Account, Jean-Philippe van Dijck, Véronique Ginsburg, Luisa Girelli and Wim Gevers
7: Multi-digit Number Processing: Overview, Conceptual Clarifications, and Language Influences, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, H.-C., Moeller, and Klaus Willmes
8: How Abstract is Arithmetic?, Jamie I.D. Cambell
9: Arithmetic Word Problem Solving and Mental Representations, Catherine Thevenot and Pierre Barrouillet
10: Intuition in mathematical and probabilistic reasoning, Kinga Morsanyi and Denes Szucs
Section III: Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Mathematical and Numerical understanding
11: Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Mathematical and Numerical Understanding, Elizabeth M. Brannon and Joonkoo Park
12: Numerical and Arithmetic abilities in non-primate species, Christian Agrillo
13: Monkey Mathematical Abilities, Michael J. Beran, Bonnie M. Perdue, and Theodore A. Evans
14: Numerical Abilities and Arithmetic in Infancy, Koleen McCrink and Wesley Birdsall
15: Spontaneous focusing on numerosity and its relation to counting and arithmetic, Minna M. Hannula-Sormunen
16: How Counting Leads to Children´s First Representations of Exact, Large Numbers, Barbara W. Sarnecka, Meghan C. Goldman, Emily B. Slusser
17: Approximate arithmetic abilities in childhood, Camilla Gilmore
18: Numerosity and mathematical development, Titia Gebuis and Bert Reynvoet
19: Numerical Cognition during Cognitive Aging, Kim Uittenhove and Patrick Lemaire
Section IV: Culture and Language
20: Culture, Language, and Number, Geoffrey B. Saxe
21: Cross-cultural differences in numerical competence, John N. Towse, Kevin Muldoon, Victoria Simms
22: Mathematics learning in the USA and Japan: influences of language, Yukari Okamoto
23: What international comparisons such as TIMSS have shown about national differences in mathematics, and how these might be explained, Linda Sturman
Section V: Neuroscience of Mathematics
24: Neuroscience, Roi Cohen Kadosh
25: Single-cell neurophysiology in monkeys, Andreas Nieder
26: The development of the numerical brain, Liane Kaufmann, Karin Kucian, and Michael von Aster
27: Arithmetic in the child and adult brain, Vinod Menon
28: Numerical Symbols: An Overview of Their Cognitive and Neural Underpinnings, Ian D. Holloway and Daniel Ansari
29: A theory of magnitude (ATOM) re-evaluated, Vincent Walsh
30: Basic number representations: From computational modelling to neuroimaging, Tom Verguts
31: Mapping the Brain for Math: Reversible Inactivation by Direct Cortical Electrostimulation and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Elena Salillas and Carlo Semenza
32: Applications of Neuroscience to Mathematics Education, 1. Bert De Smedt and Roland H. Grabner
Section VI: Numerical Impairments, co-morbidity, and rehabilitation
33: When Number Processing and Calculation Is Not Your Cup of Tea, Marie-Pascale Noël
34: Dyscalculia: From Brain to Education, Brian Butterworth, Sashank Varma, and Diana Laurillard
35: Developmental Dyscalculia as a heterogeneous disability, Avishai Henik, Orly Rubinsten, and Sarit Ashkenazi
36: Number Processing and Arithmetic in Children and Adults with Reading Difficulties, Silke M. Göbel
37: Genetic developmental disorders and numerical competence across the lifespan, Jo Van Herwegen and Annette Karmiloff-Smith
38: Brain Correlates of Numerical Disabilities, Karin Kucian, Liane Kaufmann, and Michael von Aster
39: Computer-assisted Interventions on Basic Number, Pekka Räsänen
40: The Classification and Cognitive Characteristics of Mathematical Disabilities in Children, David C. Geary
41: Numbers in the Dark: Numerical cognition and blindness, Julie Castronovo
42: The Neuropsychology of Acquired Number and Calculation Disorders,