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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Wilson, Anna J.; Dehaene, Stanislas; Dubois, Ophelie; Fayol, Michel – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2009
"The Number Race" is an adaptive game designed to improve number sense. We tested its effectiveness using a cross-over design in 53 low socioeconomic status kindergarteners in France. Children showed improvements in tasks traditionally used to assess number sense (numerical comparison of digits and words). However, there was no improvement on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Cognitive Development, Mathematics Achievement
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Dehaene, Stanislas – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2007
Under what conditions can a true "science of mental life" arise from psychological investigations? Can psychology formulate scientific laws of a general nature, comparable in soundness to the laws of physics? I argue that the search for such laws must return to the forefront of psychological and developmental research, an enterprise that requires…
Descriptors: Investigations, Psychologists, Biophysics, Cognitive Processes