Chapter 12 - The Precision and Internal Confidence of Our Approximate Number Thoughts

摘要: The approximate number system (ANS) is a portion of your cognition that active across entire life, and in the business giving you rapid intuitive sense for numbers their relations (e.g., how many blue versus yellow dots are on screen or voices hear speaking at dinner table). In this chapter, we discuss representations, Weber fractions, individual differences these representations individuals who may struggle with ANS perceptions less precise than typical). A key organizing theme throughout chapter “internal confidence.” We suggest internal confidence (a technical notion related to signal fidelity) major causal factor observed links between our performance school mathematics.