Debates teóricos contemporáneos en Cognición Numérica

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Nadir Díaz-Simón
Ignacio Cervieri
Alejandro Maiche

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El procesamiento y manipulación de símbolos numéricos resulta vital para el desempeño diario de los sujetos en la sociedad contemporánea. Es por ello que el desarrollo de competencias matemáticas es un objetivo central de los sistemas educativos a nivel mundial, especialmente en edades tempranas. A pesar del desarrollo en el campo de la cognición numérica, aún no existen respuestas claras sobre cuáles son las representaciones que subyacen a la capacidad de pensar y razonar sobre los números. En el presente artículo, se presenta una revisión bibliográfica de tipo narrativa, con fuentes de información primarias de trabajos fundacionales e investigaciones actuales sobre algunos puntos críticos que generan debate en cuanto a teorías, modelos y mecanismos de funcionamiento del Sistema Numérico Aproximado (SNA) y las evidencias que sustentan cada una de las propuestas. 

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Díaz-Simón, N., Cervieri, I., & Maiche, A. (2022). Debates teóricos contemporáneos en Cognición Numérica. Revista Argentina De Ciencias Del Comportamiento, 14(3), 15–31. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v14.n3.30236
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Nadir Díaz-Simón, Universidad de la República, Centro Interdisciplinario en Cognición para la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje, Montevideo, Uruguay

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Centro Interdisciplinario en Cognición para la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje

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