Artículo
Abstract:
We present the results of a gamified mobile device arithmetic application which allowed us to collect vast amount of data in simple arithmetic operations. Our results confirm and replicate, on a large sample, six of the main principles derived in a long tradition of investigation: size effect, tie effect, size-tie interaction effect, five-effect, RTs and error rates correlation effect, and most common error effect. Our dataset allowed us to perform a robust analysis of order effects for each individual problem, for which there is controversy both in experimental findings and in the predictions of theoretical models. For addition problems, the order effect was dominated by a max-then-min structure (i.e 7+4 is easier than 4+7). This result is predicted by models in which additions are performed as a translation starting from the first addend, with a distance given by the second addend. In multiplication, we observed a dominance of two effects: (1) a max-then-min pattern that can be accounted by the fact that it is easier to perform fewer additions of the largest number (i.e. 8�3 is easier to compute as 8+8+8 than as 3+3+⋯+3) and (2) a phonological effect by which problems for which there is a rhyme (i.e. "seis por cuatro es veinticuatro") are performed faster. Above and beyond these results, our study bares an important practical conclusion, as proof of concept, that participants can be motivated to perform substantial arithmetic training simply by presenting it in a gamified format. � 2016 Zimmerman et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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| Documento: | Artículo |
| Título: | Arithmetic on your phone: A large scale investigation of simple additions and multiplications |
| Autor: | Zimmerman, F.; Shalom, D.; Gonzalez, P.A.; Garrido, J.M.; Heduan, F.A.; Dehaene, S.; Sigman, M.; Rieznik, A. |
| Filiación: | Laboratorio de Neurociencia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina Departamento de Ingenier�a Biom�dica, Facultad de Ingenier�a, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Departamento de F�sica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient�ficas y T�cnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina El Gato y La Caja, Buenos Aires, Argentina Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, Universit� Paris-Sud, Universit� Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin Center, Gif/Yvette, France Coll�ge de France, Paris, France |
| Palabras clave: | arithmetic; effect size; human; human experiment; prediction; theoretical model; demography; Ganoderma lucidum; learning; mathematics; mobile application; reaction time; video game; Demography; Learning; Mathematics; Mobile Applications; Models, Theoretical; Reaction Time; Reishi; Video Games |
| Año: | 2016 |
| Volumen: | 11 |
| Número: | 12 |
| DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168431 |
| Título revista: | PLoS ONE |
| Título revista abreviado: | PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 19326203 |
| CODEN: | POLNC |
| Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_19326203_v11_n12_p_Zimmerman |
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Zimmerman, F., Shalom, D., Gonzalez, P.A., Garrido, J.M., Heduan, F.A., Dehaene, S., Sigman, M.,..., Rieznik, A. (2016) . Arithmetic on your phone: A large scale investigation of simple additions and multiplications. PLoS ONE, 11(12).http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168431
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Zimmerman, F., Shalom, D., Gonzalez, P.A., Garrido, J.M., Heduan, F.A., Dehaene, S., et al. "Arithmetic on your phone: A large scale investigation of simple additions and multiplications" . PLoS ONE 11, no. 12 (2016).http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168431
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Zimmerman, F., Shalom, D., Gonzalez, P.A., Garrido, J.M., Heduan, F.A., Dehaene, S., et al. "Arithmetic on your phone: A large scale investigation of simple additions and multiplications" . PLoS ONE, vol. 11, no. 12, 2016.http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168431
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Zimmerman, F., Shalom, D., Gonzalez, P.A., Garrido, J.M., Heduan, F.A., Dehaene, S., et al. Arithmetic on your phone: A large scale investigation of simple additions and multiplications. PLoS ONE. 2016;11(12).http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168431
