Neural evidence for procedural automatization during cognitive development: Intraparietal response to changes in very-small addition problem-size increases with age.

First, a share of 50% of children who would use explicit counting is arguably significant and is in stark contrast with what is observed in children older than 10, who by and large no longer report using explicit counting strategies on small addition problems ( Ashcraft and Fierman, 1982 ).

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