Attention to numerosity varies across individuals and task contexts

• Published in: Mathematical thinking and learning Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 258 - 280
• Main Authors: Mazzocco, Michèle M. M., Chan, Jenny Yun-Chen, Bye, Jeffrey K., Padrutt, Emily R., Praus-Singh, Taylor, Lukowski, Sarah, Brown, Ethan, Olson, Rachel E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Routledge 01.10.2020; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Adults; Attention; attention to number; College Students; Color; Computation; Context Effect; contextual effects; early mathematics; Geometric Concepts; Knowledge Level; Mathematics Skills; Numeracy; Numerosity; Orientation; Pictorial Stimuli; Preschool Children; SFON; Visual Stimuli; Minnesota

Children's spontaneous focus on numerosity (SFON) is described as an unprompted tendency that is stable across contexts. The attention to number task (AtN), an experimental forced-choice picture-matching task designed to evaluate select aspects of children's focus on numerosity, may reveal...