Developmental changes in size effects for simple tie and non-tie addition problems in 6- to 12-year-old children and adults.
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- doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104987
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J. Bagnoud et al., « Developmental changes in size effects for simple tie and non-tie addition problems in 6- to 12-year-old children and adults. », Serveur académique Lausannois, ID : 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104987
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In the domain of cognitive arithmetic, the size effect corresponds to an increase in solution times as a function of the size of the operands involved in the problems. In this study, we tracked the evolution of size effects associated with tie and non-tie addition problems across development. We scrutinized the progression of solution times for very small problems involving operands from 2 to 4, larger problems, and 1-problems (problems involving 1 as one of the operands) in children from Grade 1 to Grade 5 and adults. For the first time, we document the presence of a size effect for tie problems with a sum up to 8 in Grade 1 children. In contrast, from Grade 3 until adulthood, this size effect could not be evidenced. Crucially, for non-tie problems, whereas a general size effect is observed when contrasting small one-digit additions with large additions, we show that, from Grade 1 until adulthood, a continuous size effect as a function of the sum of the problems is not observed. In fact, for all age groups, medium problems with sums of 8, 9, and 10 do not present a size effect at all. Given that the problem size effect is sometimes referred to as one of the most robust and reliable effects in the numerical cognition literature, our results necessarily challenge its theoretical interpretation.