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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 ...

Subitizing refers to ability of people to accurately and effortlessly enumerate a small number of items, with a capacity around four elements. Previous research showed that “canonical” organizations, ...

The fast and accurate quantification of small numbers of elements, called subitizing, has been explained by assuming either a limited capacity for immediate apprehension of numerosity, a fast ...

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 ...