A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Eye movements and spontaneous focusing on numerosity among five-year-old children
Authors: Rajalakso, Satu; Södervik, Ilona; Hannula-Sormunen, Minna; Hannula, Markku S.
Editors: Cornejo, Claudia; Felmer, Patricio; Gómez, David M.; Dartnell, Pablo; Araya, Paulina; Peri, Armando; Randolph, Valeria
Conference name: International Conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
Publisher: Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME)
Publication year: 2025
Journal: Proceedings of the PME Conference
Book title : Proceedings of the 48th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education: Research Reports, Vol. 2.
Journal name in source: Proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
Volume: 48
Issue: 2
First page : 203
Last page: 210
ISSN: 0771-100X
eISSN: 2790-3648
Web address : https://www.igpme.org/publications/current-proceedings/
Spontaneous focusing on numerosity (SFON) refers to extent to which children spontaneously recognize and use numerosity in action. SFON is known to be a significant predictor of mathematical skills development. This study is the first one to implement eye-tracking to study SFON. The aim of the present research is to investigate the relations between young children’s SFON and their eye movement behaviour during memory card game. The results did not reveal significant differences between how many times participant had fixated on objects they did or did not enumerate. However, the extensive variation in the number of fixations on the enumerated objects suggests distinct enumeration strategies between subitizing- and counting-based enumeration.
