Sentence examples for numerical ability in from inspiring English sources

More recent experiments on infants, using Mickey Mouse toys instead of chocolate chips, found signs of the same kind of rough numerical ability in babies less than 5 months old.

Recently we found [15] that fish, seeking safety from predators, display a rudimentary numerical ability in selecting the largest shoal.

While it would be unwise to expect honeybees to perform tasks comparable to those attributed to chimpanzees, we thought it not unreasonable to expect at least a rudimentary form of numerical ability in this insect.

There is also an abbreviated version (WIAT-II Abbreviated) which can assess reading, spelling and numerical ability in 10 20 minutes.

However, Banks, Muriel and Smith (2011), who compared the impact of attrition on estimates of disease prevalence in the Health and Retirement Survey (for the USA) and the ELSA, found that for the 70 80-year-old 70 80-year-old 70 80-year-oldly associated with higroupucattritiontatus and numerical ability in the previous wase.

Chimps, salamanders and pigeons have shown numerical abilities in lab tests, but what is more impressive for the elephants is that their ability to distinguish between two figures does not get worse when those numbers are more similar.

This spontaneous tendency has been recently used to explore the limits of numerical abilities in these phylogenetically distant organisms [30], [39].

Field studies have documented that being able to process numerical information is advantageous in several ecological contexts [1], [2] while laboratory studies have provided evidence of rudimentary numerical abilities in animals as diverse as mammals [3], [4], [5], [6], birds [7], [8], [9], amphibians [10], fish [11], [12], [13] and social insects [14].

The present results provide further evidence that is coherent with previous works [15], [22], [31], [47], indicating a fundamental similarity of mechanisms underlying non-verbal numerical abilities in distantly related vertebrates and reinforcing the idea that numerical systems may be more ancient than we had previously assumed.

However, not all studies suggest a link between non-symbolic and symbolic numerical abilities in children [ 31].

As such, it is worth noting that Holloway and Ansari [ 32] tested 87 participants (more than twice the number of participants tested here) without finding any correlation between non-symbolic and symbolic numerical abilities; in this sense, it is unlikely that sample size alone can explain the presence/absence of correlations here reported.