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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Numerical Cognition

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  • Growing interest in automatic processing of numerical magnitude.
  • Limited research on non-symbolic numerical magnitude in preschoolers.
  • Understanding early numerical cognition is crucial for educational development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate automatic non-symbolic numerical processing in 3- to 6-year-olds.
  • Examine developmental changes in size congruity effects.
  • Explore the influence of ratio, counting principle knowledge, and inhibition skills on numerical processing.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Non-symbolic physical size comparison task in 3- to 6-year-olds.
  • Experiment 2: Assessed inhibition skills and size congruity effects in 4-year-olds.
  • Utilized ratio conditions and symbolic number comparison tasks.

Main Results:

  • Automatic non-symbolic numerical processing emerges by 3-4 years.
  • Size congruity effects decrease with age from 4 years.
  • Non-counting principle knowers and low ratio conditions showed larger congruity effects.
  • Symbolic number comparison ability negatively correlated with size congruity effect.
  • No correlation between inhibition skills and size congruity effect; interference effects were found.

Conclusions:

  • Early automatic non-symbolic numerical processing is present in preschoolers.
  • Developmental trajectory of numerical magnitude processing is influenced by age, counting knowledge, and ratio.
  • Inhibition skills do not appear to directly modulate size congruity effects in 4-year-olds.