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1 Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan 2 Institute of Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan Introduction: Previous studies have shown ...

An essay in the New York Times by science writer Natalie Angier called "Many Animals Can Count, Some Better Than You" caught my eye. In this piece, Ms. Angier summarizes some of what we know about how ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...