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Similarity interference significantly impacts learning arithmetic facts, making similar problems harder to remember. This effect is crucial for understanding both typical and atypical math learning, including developmental dyscalculia.

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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Educational Psychology

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  • Storing arithmetic facts is vital for academic and daily life.
  • Individual differences in arithmetic fact learning are significant, especially in developmental dyscalculia.
  • Similarity interference is a key factor affecting arithmetic fact retrieval and learning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the detrimental effect of similarity interference on arithmetic fact learning.
  • To explore the role of proactive interference in multiplication problem performance.
  • To understand individual differences in sensitivity to similarity interference in typical and atypical development.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of connectionist models for retrieval interference.
  • Examination of the interference parameter in learning arithmetic facts.
  • Assessment of sensitivity to similarity interference in children and adults.

Main Results:

  • Similarity interference during learning, termed proactive interference, substantially impacts multiplication problem performance.
  • Highly similar problems are more difficult to learn and retrieve.
  • Hypersensitivity to similarity interference is linked to arithmetic fact deficits in developmental dyscalculia and low-knowledge learners.

Conclusions:

  • Similarity interference is a critical factor during the learning stage of arithmetic facts.
  • Individual differences in sensitivity to this interference contribute to learning disparities.
  • Understanding similarity interference offers new insights into both typical and atypical arithmetic development.