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27-29 Jun 2018
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Keynote Speaker
Foundational capacities and arithmetical development Brian Butterworh University College London
Like many other species, humans, even in infancy, possess a mechanism for extracting numerosity information from the environment, which I have called a foundational capacity. This mechanism is domain-specific, is implemented in a dedicated mechanism and is innate. I argue that the efficient working of this capacity is necessary for typical arithmetical development, and if it works inefficiently, this is sufficient for atypical development – dyscalculia.
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