Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... held after researchers accounted for IQ, spatial reasoning ability and other cognitive measures. Brian Butterworth of University College London says it's unclear how estimation helps kids learn arithmetic. "Arithmetic requires a sense of exact number," he says. "Approximate numbers just won't do."Researchers found great variation In teens' abilities to estimate quantities of blue...
Live Science (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Answer this without counting: Are there more X's here XXXXXX, or here XXXXX? That's a problem facing people whose languages don't include words for more than one or two. Yet researchers say children who speak those languages are still able to compare quantities. "We argue that humans possess an innate system for enumeration that doesn't rely on words," says Brian Butterworth...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The human ability to count is innate, and is not reliant on numbers or language to express it, according to a team of British and Australian researchers.Brian Butterworth and colleagues of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London set out to prove that Australian Aboriginal children were able to count even though their languages don’t have number words.All the...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
FONT SIZE (Getty Images )Answer this without counting: Are there more X's here XXXXXX, or here XXXXX? That's a problem facing people whose languages don't include words for more than one or two. Yet researchers say children who speak those languages are still able to compare quantities."We argue that humans possess an innate system for enumeration that doesn't rely on words," says Brian Butterworth...
Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... above three. That is, to possess the concept of 'five' you need a word for five," said Professor Brian Butterworth, lead author from the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. "However, our study of aboriginal children suggests that we have an innate system for recognizing and representing numerosities - the number of objects in a set - and that the lack of a number vocabulary should...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... mechanism for counting, which may develop differently in children with dyscalculia. Professor Brian Butterworth, lead author from the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, says: "Recently, an extreme form of linguistic determinism has been revived which claims that counting words are needed for children to develop concepts of numbers above three. That is, to possess the concept...
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
That the ability to count may be inborn struck me as a boon for people who struggle with math. "Let's say you're God-awful at math," I asked Brian Butterworth, a University College, London researcher who found that Australian aboriginal kids...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
WASHINGTON Answer this without counting: Are there more X's here XXXXXX, or here XXXXX? That's a problem facing people whose languages don't include words for more than one or two. Yet researchers say children who speak those languages are still able to compare quantities.
"We argue that humans possess an innate system for enumeration that doesn't rely on words," says Brian Butterworth...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... argue that humans possess an innate system for enumeration that doesn't rely on words," says Brian Butterworth of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.In an attempt to prove it, Butterworth compared the numerical skills of children from two indigenous Australian groups whose languages don't contain many number words with similar children who...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Answer this without counting: Are there more X's here XXXXXX, or here XXXXX? That's a problem facing people whose languages don't include words for more than one or two. Yet researchers say children who speak those languages are still able to compare quantities."We argue that humans possess an innate system for enumeration that doesn't rely on words," says Brian Butterworth of the Institute...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... argue that humans possess an innate system for enumeration that doesn't rely on words," says Brian Butterworth of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.In an attempt to prove it, Butterworth compared the numerical skills of children from two indigenous Australian groups whose languages don't contain many number words with similar children who...
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... capacity to represent numbers approximately, but not exactly. Our work challenges that idea," said Brian Butterworth, a University College, London cognitive neuroscientist. Some earlier studies found the opposite, with child speakers of number-free languages unable to count precisely. But Butterworth has observed rare cases in which people from number-rich cultures are incapable...
