Figure 2: Five-year-old children’s performance on approximate addition, subtraction and comparison problems. What processes underlie children’s symbolic approximate arithmetic? We first ...

The new study shows bees can be taught to recognize colors as symbolic representations for addition and subtraction, and use this information to solve arithmetic problems. The revelation that even ...

It's a notable result because processing arithmetic demands "complex cognitive processes" requiring the use of long-term and short-term memory. We may see addition or subtraction as simple ...