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Effect of Finger Gnosis on Young Chinese Children’s Addition Skills
Evidence has revealed an association between finger gnosis and arithmetic skills in young Western children, however, it is unknown whether such an association can be generalized to Chinese children and what mechanism may underlie this relationship. This study examines whether finger gnosis is associ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7554299/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33101118 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.544543 |
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author | Zhang, Li Wang, Wei Zhang, Xiao |
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description | Evidence has revealed an association between finger gnosis and arithmetic skills in young Western children, however, it is unknown whether such an association can be generalized to Chinese children and what mechanism may underlie this relationship. This study examines whether finger gnosis is associated with addition skills in young Chinese children and, if so, what numerical skills could explain this correlation. A total of 102 Chinese children aged 5–6 years were asked to complete finger gnosis and addition tasks in Study 1. Results showed that finger gnosis was significantly associated with addition performance. However, no significant correlation was found between finger gnosis and the use of finger counting in solving addition problems. Moreover, girls’ finger gnosis was better than boys’, and children with musical training demonstrated better finger gnosis than those without. In Study 2, 16 children with high finger gnosis and 20 children with low finger gnosis were selected from the children in Study 1 and asked to perform enumeration, order judgment, number sense, and number line estimation. Children with high finger gnosis performed better in number line estimation than their counterparts with low finger gnosis. Moreover, the number line estimation fully mediated the relationship between finger gnosis and addition performance. Together, these studies provide evidence of a correlation between finger gnosis and addition skills. They also highlight the importance of number line estimation in bridging this association. |
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spelling | pubmed-75542992020-10-22 Effect of Finger Gnosis on Young Chinese Children’s Addition Skills Zhang, Li Wang, Wei Zhang, Xiao Front Psychol Psychology Evidence has revealed an association between finger gnosis and arithmetic skills in young Western children, however, it is unknown whether such an association can be generalized to Chinese children and what mechanism may underlie this relationship. This study examines whether finger gnosis is associated with addition skills in young Chinese children and, if so, what numerical skills could explain this correlation. A total of 102 Chinese children aged 5–6 years were asked to complete finger gnosis and addition tasks in Study 1. Results showed that finger gnosis was significantly associated with addition performance. However, no significant correlation was found between finger gnosis and the use of finger counting in solving addition problems. Moreover, girls’ finger gnosis was better than boys’, and children with musical training demonstrated better finger gnosis than those without. In Study 2, 16 children with high finger gnosis and 20 children with low finger gnosis were selected from the children in Study 1 and asked to perform enumeration, order judgment, number sense, and number line estimation. Children with high finger gnosis performed better in number line estimation than their counterparts with low finger gnosis. Moreover, the number line estimation fully mediated the relationship between finger gnosis and addition performance. Together, these studies provide evidence of a correlation between finger gnosis and addition skills. They also highlight the importance of number line estimation in bridging this association. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7554299/ /pubmed/33101118 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.544543 Text en Copyright © 2020 Zhang, Wang and Zhang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Zhang, Li Wang, Wei Zhang, Xiao Effect of Finger Gnosis on Young Chinese Children’s Addition Skills |
title | Effect of Finger Gnosis on Young Chinese Children’s Addition Skills |
title_full | Effect of Finger Gnosis on Young Chinese Children’s Addition Skills |
title_fullStr | Effect of Finger Gnosis on Young Chinese Children’s Addition Skills |
title_full_unstemmed | Effect of Finger Gnosis on Young Chinese Children’s Addition Skills |
title_short | Effect of Finger Gnosis on Young Chinese Children’s Addition Skills |
title_sort | effect of finger gnosis on young chinese children’s addition skills |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7554299/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33101118 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.544543 |
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