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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Development
  • Numerical Cognition
  • Spatial Perception

Background:

  • The Approximate Number System (ANS) enables rapid quantity estimation.
  • Developmental understanding of numerical and spatial perception in school-aged children is limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the developmental trajectories of numerical and spatial perception in 7, 9, and 11-year-old children.
  • To examine how number and area cues influence quantity perception.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed dot-number and dot-area tasks with congruent, neutral, and incongruent cues.
  • Performance was assessed across different age groups (7, 9, 11 years).

Main Results:

  • Numerosity estimation improved significantly after age 7, plateauing between 9 and 11 years.
  • Area estimation capacity remained stable across all age groups.
  • Children showed difficulty disregarding numerical cues over non-numerical cues.

Conclusions:

  • Significant growth in numerical perception occurs in early school years.
  • Spatial perception is stable during this developmental period.
  • Cognitive processing demonstrates a preferential sensitivity to numerical information.