Although not officially bookmarked as such, this book follows on the book Heterogeneity of Function in Numerical Cognition, published in 2018.This book, like the previous book, originated from a small group meeting to which we had invited speakers with different backgrounds, to put their knowledge together in order to come to a more refined and deeper understanding of numerical and mathematical cognition. In the first book, we focused on how cognitive functions, other than the ones that are specifically related to math, contribute to our numerical abilities. Language, performance control and selective attention, spatial processing and imagery, executive functions, and memory were explored. In the present book, we want to bring the field of cognitive (neuro)science of numerical and mathematical cognition in closer contact with the field of education and intervention.
The cognitive (neuro)science of numerical and mathematical cognition studies the neurocognitive basis of how we do mathematics, with the ulti- mate goal of understanding how numerical and mathematical knowledge are stored and processed in our cognitive systems. Applications and impli- cations for education and intervention are considered, but often in thought exercises that illustrate the hope rather than the fact that basic findings can be translated to practice.