کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5039643 | 1473342 | 2017 | 12 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
- We asked whether analogical reasoning abilities support numerical estimation.
- We analyzed 47 preschoolers' estimation abilities, and related them to their analogical reasoning ability.
- Even when controlling for general cognitive performance, analogical reasoning ability uniquely predicted estimation performance.
- Our data show that domain-general analogical reasoning skills support the acquisition of early number word mappings.
All humans and many animals can represent approximate quantities of perceptual objects nonlinguistically by using the Approximate Number System (Dehaene, 1997/2011). Early in life, children in numerate societies also learn to describe this system using number words. How do linguistic representations of number become related to nonlinguistic representations of number? We hypothesize that the analogical process of structure mapping (Gentner, 1983) helps children to form mappings between the linguistic and nonlinguistic number systems on the basis of structural similarities between the two systems. To test this, we tested and analyzed 47 four-and-five year olds' performance on estimation and analogy tasks. We found that analogical reasoning ability uniquely predicted several components of estimation performance, even when controlling for other domain-general cognitive skills. This provides strong evidence that analogical processes are uniquely related to the development of early estimation.
Journal: Cognitive Development - Volume 41, JanuaryâMarch 2017, Pages 73-84