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Do preschool children recognize auditory-visual numerical correspondences?

K S Mix1, J Huttenlocher, S C Levine

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA. mix1@midway.uchicago.edu

Child Development
|August 1, 1996
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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Development
  • Numerical Cognition
  • Early Childhood Education

Background:

  • Infants demonstrate an innate ability to perceive numerical equivalence between auditory and visual stimuli.
  • Previous research suggests a foundational understanding of number sense even before language acquisition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the development of auditory-visual numerical matching skills in 3- and 4-year-old children.
  • To explore the relationship between linguistic counting system mastery and performance on numerical equivalence tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Children aged 3 and 4 years were presented with auditory stimuli (sets of sounds) and visual stimuli (displays of objects).
  • Participants were tasked with matching the number of sounds to the number of objects in the visual displays.

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  • Performance was assessed by comparing accuracy to chance levels.

    • Main Results:

    • Three-year-old children performed at chance levels on the auditory-visual matching task.
    • Four-year-old children demonstrated significantly above-chance performance.
    • Success in matching was correlated with the mastery of the linguistic counting system.

    Conclusions:

    • The ability to match numerical quantities across sensory modalities develops significantly between 3 and 4 years of age.
    • Mastery of the linguistic counting system appears crucial for advanced numerical cognition in early childhood.
    • These findings contrast with earlier research indicating numerical perception in much younger infants, suggesting a developmental shift in how numerical information is processed.