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Acquisition of Complex Arithmetic Skills and Higher-Order
Mathematics Concepts focuses on typical and atypical learning of
complex arithmetic skills and higher-order math concepts. As part
of the series Mathematical Cognition and Learning, this volume
covers recent advances in the understanding of children's
developing competencies with whole-number arithmetic, fractions,
and rational numbers. Each chapter covers these topics from
multiple perspectives, including genetic disorders, cognition,
instruction, and neural networks.
Development of Mathematical Cognition: Neural Substrates and
Genetic Influences reviews advances in extant imaging modalities
and the application of brain stimulation techniques for improving
mathematical learning. It goes on to explore the role genetics and
environmental influences have in the development of math abilities
and disabilities. Focusing on the neural substrates and genetic
factors associated with both the typical and atypical development
of mathematical thinking and learning, this second volume in the
Mathematical Cognition and Learning series integrates the latest in
innovative measures and methodological advances from the top
researchers in the field.
Biologists have known for decades that many traits involved in
competition for mates or other resources and that influence mate
choice are exaggerated, and their expression is influenced by the
individuals' ability to tolerate a variety of environmental and
social stressors. Evolution of Vulnerability applies this concept
of heightened sensitivity to humans for a host of physical, social,
psychological, cognitive, and brain traits. By reframing the issue
entirely, renowned evolutionary psychologist David C. Geary
demonstrates this principle can be used to identify children,
adolescents, or populations at risk for poor long-term outcomes and
identify specific traits in each sex and at different points in
development that are most easily disrupted by exposure to
stressors. Evolution of Vulnerability begins by reviewing the
expansive literature on traits predicted to show sex-specific
sensitivity to environmental and social stressors, and details the
implications for better assessing and understanding the
consequences of exposure to these stressors. Next, the book reviews
sexual selection-mate competition and choice-and the mechanisms
involved in the evolution of condition dependent traits and the
stressors that can undermine their development and expression, such
as poor early nutrition and health, parasites, social stress, and
exposure to man-made toxins. Then it reviews condition dependent
traits (physical, behavioral, cognitive, and brain) in birds, fish,
insects, and mammals to demonstrate the ubiquity of these traits in
nature. The focus then turns to humans and covers sex-specific
vulnerabilities in children and adults for physical traits, social
behavior, psychological wellbeing, and brain and cognitive traits.
The sensitivity of these traits is related to exposure to
parasites, poor nutrition, social maltreatment, environmental
toxins, chemotherapy, and Alzheimer's disease, among others. The
book concludes with an implications chapter that outlines how to
better assess vulnerabilities in children and adults and how to
more fully understand how, why, and when in development some types
of environmental and social stressors are particularly harmful to
humans.
The first volume in this ground-breaking series focuses on the
origins and early development of numerical cognition in non-human
primates, lower vertebrates, human infants, and preschool children.
The text will help readers understand the nature and complexity of
these foundational quantitative concepts and skills along with
evolutionary precursors and early developmental trajectories.
The fifth volume in the Mathematical Cognition and Learning series
focuses on informal learning environments and other parental
influences on numerical cognitive development and formal
instructional interventions for improving mathematics learning and
performance. The chapters cover the use of numerical play and games
for improving foundational number knowledge as well as school math
performance, the link between early math abilities and the
approximate number system, and how families can help improve the
early development of math skills. The book goes on to examine
learning trajectories in early mathematics, the role of
mathematical language in acquiring numeracy skills, evidence-based
assessments of early math skills, approaches for intensifying early
mathematics interventions, the use of analogies in mathematics
instruction, schema-based diagrams for teaching ratios and
proportions, the role of cognitive processes in treating
mathematical learning difficulties, and addresses issues associated
with intervention fadeout.
Language and Culture in Mathematical Cognition, First Edition
focuses on the role of linguistic and cultural factors in math
cognition and development. It covers a wide range of topics,
including analogical mapping in numerical development, arithmetic
fact retrieval in the bilingual brain, cross-cultural comparisons
of mathematics achievement, the shaping of numerical processing by
number word construction, the influence of Head Start programs, the
mathematical skills of children with specific language impairments,
the role of culture and language in creating associations between
number and space, and electrophysiological studies of linguistic
traces in core knowledge at the neural level.
Now in a third edition, the authoritative classic text Male, Female
evaluates both foundational and recent scholarship on the evolution
of human sex differences, including how males and females differ in
modern contexts. In comprehensive detail, David C. Geary describes
how men and women differ based on evolutionary principles, how
human sex differences are similar to those found in other species
and how the expression of these differences is uniquely human. The
principles of sexual selection—such as female choice and
male-male competition—explain sex differences in parenting, mate
choices, ways of competing for mates, social-political preferences,
development, the brain, and cognition. Far from being one-sided in
the nature-versus-nurture debate, Geary shows how an evolutionary
framework can easily incorporate the influence of experience and
cultural context on the development and expression of sex
differences. Thoroughly updated and expanded, this third edition
adds a chapter on sex differences that emerge in modern contexts,
like occupational choices, variation in sexual orientation, gender
identity, and relationships. Scholars from a wide range of sciences
have much to learn from this monumental volume.
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