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Symbolic Numerical Magnitude Processing Is as Important to Arithmetic as Phonological Awareness Is to Reading
In this article, we tested, using a 1-year longitudinal design, whether symbolic numerical magnitude processing or children’s numerical representation of Arabic digits, is as important to arithmetic as phonological awareness is to reading. Children completed measures of symbolic comparison, phonolog...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4778857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26942935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151045 |
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author | Vanbinst, Kiran Ansari, Daniel Ghesquière, Pol De Smedt, Bert |
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description | In this article, we tested, using a 1-year longitudinal design, whether symbolic numerical magnitude processing or children’s numerical representation of Arabic digits, is as important to arithmetic as phonological awareness is to reading. Children completed measures of symbolic comparison, phonological awareness, arithmetic, reading at the start of third grade and the latter two were retested at the start of fourth grade. Cross-sectional and longitudinal correlations indicated that symbolic comparison was a powerful domain-specific predictor of arithmetic and that phonological awareness was a unique predictor of reading. Crucially, the strength of these independent associations was not significantly different. This indicates that symbolic numerical magnitude processing is as important to arithmetic development as phonological awareness is to reading and suggests that symbolic numerical magnitude processing is a good candidate for screening children at risk for developing mathematical difficulties. |
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spelling | pubmed-47788572016-03-23 Symbolic Numerical Magnitude Processing Is as Important to Arithmetic as Phonological Awareness Is to Reading Vanbinst, Kiran Ansari, Daniel Ghesquière, Pol De Smedt, Bert PLoS One Research Article In this article, we tested, using a 1-year longitudinal design, whether symbolic numerical magnitude processing or children’s numerical representation of Arabic digits, is as important to arithmetic as phonological awareness is to reading. Children completed measures of symbolic comparison, phonological awareness, arithmetic, reading at the start of third grade and the latter two were retested at the start of fourth grade. Cross-sectional and longitudinal correlations indicated that symbolic comparison was a powerful domain-specific predictor of arithmetic and that phonological awareness was a unique predictor of reading. Crucially, the strength of these independent associations was not significantly different. This indicates that symbolic numerical magnitude processing is as important to arithmetic development as phonological awareness is to reading and suggests that symbolic numerical magnitude processing is a good candidate for screening children at risk for developing mathematical difficulties. Public Library of Science 2016-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4778857/ /pubmed/26942935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151045 Text en © 2016 Vanbinst et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Vanbinst, Kiran Ansari, Daniel Ghesquière, Pol De Smedt, Bert Symbolic Numerical Magnitude Processing Is as Important to Arithmetic as Phonological Awareness Is to Reading |
title | Symbolic Numerical Magnitude Processing Is as Important to Arithmetic as Phonological Awareness Is to Reading |
title_full | Symbolic Numerical Magnitude Processing Is as Important to Arithmetic as Phonological Awareness Is to Reading |
title_fullStr | Symbolic Numerical Magnitude Processing Is as Important to Arithmetic as Phonological Awareness Is to Reading |
title_full_unstemmed | Symbolic Numerical Magnitude Processing Is as Important to Arithmetic as Phonological Awareness Is to Reading |
title_short | Symbolic Numerical Magnitude Processing Is as Important to Arithmetic as Phonological Awareness Is to Reading |
title_sort | symbolic numerical magnitude processing is as important to arithmetic as phonological awareness is to reading |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4778857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26942935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151045 |
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