At the intersection of psychology and neuroscience is a phenomena called “number sense”—an intuition of the magnitude and relationships of numbers that is found in humans. In children and adolescents, ...

We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what children know about numbers as they begin ...

Number sense can be described various ways: knowing what numbers mean, the ability to see patterns and relationships between numbers, how number systems work. In K-5 grades, Epler said, it would ...

Brannon is also exploring the macaque's sense of an empty set, what we'd call zero with our linguistically intensive sense of number. The monkeys are more likely to confuse an empty set with a 1 or a ...