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How Language Affects Counting

How Language Affects Counting | Science News | Scoop.it

Every time the results of international test scores in mathematics are released, children from the United States usually perform dismally compared to children from other nations, particularly those from Asia. Differences in classroom instruction and curriculum may be partly to blame. But cultural differences in computational ability may have their roots in the words that different cultures use to represent numbers.

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The Curious Case of Clever Hans : Discovery News

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A horse in Germany seemed to know how to count, tell the days of the week, and understand language. What was his secret?
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Neural network learns to identify group sizes without knowledge of numbers

Neural network learns to identify group sizes without knowledge of numbers | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- A cognitive sciences research duo out of Università di Padova, in Italy, have succeeded in building an artificial intelligence network that has through repetition, learned to identify relative group sizes, without counting.
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