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SUMMARY:The psychology of number: developmental\, evolutionary and cogniti
 ve-neuroscientific considerations - Dr Claudia Uller\, Faculty of Educatio
 n\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Nichola Daily
DESCRIPTION:*ABSTRACT* The study of numerical cognition has received much 
 attention in the fields of psychology and neuroscience for the past 20 yea
 rs. Recently\, research has shown that preverbal infants and nonhuman anim
 als have a rudimentary form of numerical knowledge. In particular\, in hum
 ans\, this understanding seems to lie at the rootS of mathematical learnin
 g\, a cultural construct developed through maths education. In this talk\,
  we argue that the rudiments of numerical thinking found in preverbal babi
 es are the same found in non-human animals. In humans\, however\, the intr
 insic relationship with language makes mathematical learning unique. We di
 scuss the models proposed to account for these findings\, and the relevanc
 e of these findings for the education of mathematics.\n\n*PROFILE*\nClaudi
 a took her PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Instit
 ute of Technology in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. Her particular interests a
 re in how the mind conceptualizes the world\, and in particular\, developm
 ent in young children and the evolutionary origins of certain domains of k
 nowledge such as naive physics/number and naive psychology.\n\nClaudia has
  worked as Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of L
 ouisiana\, and lecturer at the University of Essex. She has published a nu
 mber of papers on the topic of early numerical cognition and comparative c
 ognition in nonhuman animals.
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, (Do
 nald McIntyre Building\, room 2S3)
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