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Classification performance ................................................................................................ 70 Eye fixation behaviour ....................................................................................................... 72 Total reading time on target ............................................................................................ 73 Origin of regressions ....................................................................................................... 74 Target of regressions ....................................................................................................... 75 DISCUSSION ......................................................................................................................... 77 Unit based calculations indexing that a carry is required .............................................. 77 Executing the carry – rule-based updating of the decade digit of the result ................ 79 CONCLUSIONS / PERSPECTIVES ................................................................................... 81 APPENDIX A ......................................................................................................................... 83 Section 3: On the importance of place-value integration in arithmetical development Study 3: Language effects on children’s non-verbal number line estimations ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................ 87 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 88 The mental number line and its development ................................................................. 88 Language specificities and their influence on number representation .......................... 92 Objectives ............................................................................................................................ 93 METHOD ................................................................................................................................ 95 Participants ......................................................................................................................... 95 Stimuli and design .............................................................................................................. 96 VI
Procedure ............................................................................................................................ 96 Analysis ............................................................................................................................... 96 RESULTS ................................................................................................................................ 98 CFT-1 ................................................................................................................................... 98 Overall estimation accuracy .............................................................................................. 98 Fit of simple linear, logarithmic and two-linear regression models .............................. 99 Inversion influences on estimation accuracy ................................................................. 103 DISCUSSION ....................................................................................................................... 105 Language differences in estimation accuracy ................................................................ 106 Implications for the theoretical understanding of numerical cognition ...................... 108 Logarithmic vs. two-linear representation of numbers up to 100 ............................... 110 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................... 113 APPENDIX A ....................................................................................................................... 115 A remark on how to evaluate the logarithmic vs. two-linear issue .............................. 115 Averaging across participants (fixed effects analysis) .................................................. 115 Fitting individual participants (random effects analysis) ............................................. 117 Addressing the problem of possible model overfitting .................................................. 121 Study 4: Early place-value understanding as a precursor for later arithmetic performance – a longitudinal study on numerical development ABSTRACT .......................................................................................................................... 126 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 127 The place-value structure of the Arabic number system .............................................. 130 Understanding the Arabic place-value concept ............................................................. 131 VII
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Page 6 and 7: ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Das wissenschaftlic
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eplicate processes of unit-decade i
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determinants shall be reviewed. Mor
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Study 6: Hoeckner, S., Moeller, K.,
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Section 2 Task invariant influences
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ABSTRACT Over the last years, evide
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The authors used a magnitude compar
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Such congruency is important as mos
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Procedure: After ten randomly chose
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compatibility effect for large unit
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2004). So, increasing the maximum u
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proportions in earlier studies. The
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CONCLUSIONS In summary, the conclus
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Study 2 On the cognitive instantiat
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INTRODUCTION One of the probably mo
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eye fixation behaviour for the eval
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(see Rayner, 1998 for a review). Tr
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Procedure: After being seated with
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adjustment of the degrees of freedo
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Eye fixation behaviour TRT in ms To
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or the decade digits was found (393
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egressions were directed to the sec
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the requirement of a carry is deter
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In line with this prediction, total
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Instead, it seems to involve differ
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Section 3 On the importance of plac
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ABSTRACT The mental number line of
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preschoolers aged 4). However, the
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still represented even when only th
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specificity. Yet, in adults it has
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METHOD The reported experiment was
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child separately to obtain estimati
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indicated that Italian children’s
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striking similarity between the ori
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Inversion influences on estimation
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% overall Estimation Error 25 20 15
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seem to be the origin of the perfor
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this system. In this case no langua
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two-linear model with one linear re
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and 40 is 10 times as large as the
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APPENDIX A A remark on how to evalu
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Splitting the overall interval in t
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much closer to the proposed breakpo
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the individual approach may be more
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Contrarily, data produced by a two-
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Study 4 Early place-value understan
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INTRODUCTION Dealing with (multi-di
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has been shown that other represent
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number system as formalized by its
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124 10024, see Deloche & Seron, 19
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Please note that in contrast to Miu
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Roid, Prifitera, & Weiss, 1993; see
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effect-based approach has never bee
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(ii) In the magnitude comparison ta
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problem of capitalizing on differen
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Error rate in % Error Categories (c
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positively correlated with overall
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(ii) Effect approach analyses of pr
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whether the carry effect for additi
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Non-carry problems: For the percent
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from basic numerical concepts to ar
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transcoding and/or who showed relat
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A word on the validity of the curre
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e adapted for the results of the pr
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Non-monotonous Model of the Relatio
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of the probes unit and/or decade di
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the place-value structure of the Ar
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Therefore, we believe that this stu
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APPENDIX A: Correlation tables of s
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Section 4 The neurocognitive underp
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ABSTRACT Mental arithmetic and calc
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manipulations cannot be distinguish
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numbers is assumed to be more preci
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correctly bisected by the second nu
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Table 1: Behavioural performance in
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were found bilaterally in the dorso
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Table 3: Brain areas activated by b
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portion of the superior frontal gyr
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Figure 3: fMRI signal for parametri
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The fronto-parietal network and the
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Finally, increased activation in th
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Inferior parietal cortex, the angul
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primarily necessary for solving the
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Tippet (1996) have shown that patie
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Study 6 Impairments of the mental n
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INTRODUCTION Patients suffering fro
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2005), triplets in which the interv
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Visual field assessment showed no s
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Table 1: Demographic and clinical d
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For 80 bisected triplets the factor
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Factorial Analyses (ANOVA and t-tes
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Errors: The ANOVA revealed a main e
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DISCUSSION The effects of neglect o
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decade digits but they even process
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strategic value of retrieving this
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APPENDIX A Test results of patients
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the middle the beneficial effect of
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229
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Study 7 Two-digit number processing
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INTRODUCTION The internal represent
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all numbers the overlap for larger
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digit numbers were engaged. Additio
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single node in an ordered sequence
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modelling to evaluate the plausibil
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A Output Layer 11 99 11 #1 #2 99 In
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expected considering their magnitud
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the output of the right node would
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advantages for these numbers (see a
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Finally, a regression analysis only
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236) = 417.38, p < .001] and incorp
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Regression The stepwise regression
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compared numbers, unit distance, lo
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RT in ms 780 770 Compatible Number
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esponse latencies increased as dist
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Table 5: Predictors included in the
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Taken together, these results revea
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of overall distance necessarily req
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most important predictor in a multi
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activation of the output layer is a
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The nature of the representation of
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Thereby, possible interactions and
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decomposed model did not include an
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APPERNDIX B Development of connecti
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Figure C: Development of connection
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Figure E: Development of connection
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Interestingly, one might infer from
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Section 6 Summary 287
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may be determined by the presentati
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tens and units: German-speaking chi
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Study 6 examined the influence of t
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GENERAL DISCUSSION In the last sect
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to-be-evaluated triplet crossed a d
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specific processing of place-value
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explanation of the decade consisten
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verbal recoding of tens and units d
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system and the ordinality of the me
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epresentation itself as well as its
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Furthermore, converging evidence is
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methodological problems. In most of
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jittering the positions of the sequ
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numbers within the triplets, proces
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Pollatsek, 1989) states that an obj
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computational models were programme
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The developmental influence of plac
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correspond to the order of tens and
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Asian languages (e.g., Japanese, Ko
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indicating that decomposed processi
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REFERENCES Banks, W. P. (1977). Enc
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Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (1996). Be
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Pixner, S. (2009). How do children
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