Bella Starling Alves
@starlingalves.bsky.social
Postdoc scholar at The Number Lab - Vanderbilt University, studying numerical cognition.
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We tested 37 adults with low schooling (~3.5y). They heard fraction names and wrote them as numbers. About 50% of them had high accuracy, and 50% failed the task.
Errors fell into three types: syntactic (wrong notation), lexical (wrong digits), and combined (wrong digits and notation).
We tested 37 adults with low schooling (~3.5y). They heard fraction names and wrote them as numbers. About 50% of them had high accuracy, and 50% failed the task.
Errors fell into three types: syntactic (wrong notation), lexical (wrong digits), and combined (wrong digits and notation).
February 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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We tested 37 adults with low schooling (~3.5y). They heard fraction names and wrote them as numbers. About 50% of them had high accuracy, and 50% failed the task.
Errors fell into three types: syntactic (wrong notation), lexical (wrong digits), and combined (wrong digits and notation).
We tested 37 adults with low schooling (~3.5y). They heard fraction names and wrote them as numbers. About 50% of them had high accuracy, and 50% failed the task.
Errors fell into three types: syntactic (wrong notation), lexical (wrong digits), and combined (wrong digits and notation).