The perception of subset quantity and items in an environment with distractors in a population with mathematical learning difficulties

IF 3.4 Q2 NEUROSCIENCES Trends in Neuroscience and Education Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.tine.2021.100166

Sharon Levy, Liat Goldfarb

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Abstract

Objective

People often perceive a quantity of specific objects that appear as part of an overall group of items (a subset). This study investigates this type of perception among a population with mathematical leaning difficulties (MLD).

Method

Sixty-two participants (mean age: 26.82) reported the general and subset quantity of items using a subset quantity detection task or a conjunction visual search task.

Results

MLD had difficulties perceiving both the general quantity presented and the subset quantity of items. They also had difficulties preforming a conjunction visual search task, even when the task did not involve numerical processing.

Conclusions

MLD has spatial difficulties in the form of visual search and subset quantity detection. The current study suggests that MLD might experience greater difficulties in daily tasks, which might be related to those tasks (e.g., detecting the amount of forks among other items of silverware on the table).

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数学学习困难人群在有干扰的环境中对子集数量和项目的感知

人们通常认为一定数量的特定对象是作为整体项目组(子集)的一部分出现的。本研究调查了数学学习困难(MLD)人群的这种感知。方法62名被试(平均年龄26.82岁)分别使用子集数量检测任务和关联视觉搜索任务报告项目的一般数量和子集数量。结果被试对项目的总体数量和子集数量均存在感知困难。他们在执行连接视觉搜索任务时也有困难，即使这个任务不涉及数字处理。结论smld在视觉搜索和子集数量检测方面存在空间困难。目前的研究表明，MLD在日常任务中可能会遇到更大的困难，这可能与这些任务有关(例如，在桌子上的其他银器中检测叉子的数量)。

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