The development of simple addition problem solving in children:Reliance on automatized counting or memory retrieval depends on both expertise and problemsize
Published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2023
Recommended citation: Poletti, C., Díaz-Barriga Yáñez, A., Prado, J., & Thevenot, C. (2023). "The development of simple addition problem solving in children: Reliance on automatized counting or memory retrieval depends on both expertise and problem size. " Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105710
How do children and teenagers solve small arithmetic problems? Our results support the idea that children use a counting procedure that becomes automatized (as revealed by the priming effect) around 13 years of age.