Céline Thévenot
Biographic Data
| ID | 1700622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Céline Thévenot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Céline |
| FAMILY NAME | Thévenot |
| SIGNATURE | THÉVENOT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4997-1882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Counting on automatization
Counting procedures may automatize with development rather than being replaced. • Arithmetic fluency may emerge through quantitative not qualitative change. • Same neural mechanisms support problem-size effects from childhood to adulthood. • Developmental changes reflect increasing procedural efficiency, not strategy shift. • Dyscalculia may involve impaired procedural automatization across development. Counting—enumerating sets by establishing o…
The role of children’s finger counting history on their addition skills
It has been established that whereas young children who use their fingers to solve arithmetic problems outperform those who do not, this trend reverses in older children around the age of 7. One possible interpretation is that finger counting is helpful for solving simple problems but becomes inadequate as problem complexity increases, leaving finger users reliant on strategies that are no longer efficient. Another possibility is that nonfinger u…
Eye movements when reading Arabic numbers in sentences
Finger counting training enhances addition performance in kindergarteners
Our study on 328 five- to six-year-old kindergarteners (mainly White European living in France, 152 girls) shows that children who do not count on their fingers and undergo finger counting training exhibit drastic improvement in their addition skills from pre-test to post-test (i.e., accuracy from 37.3% to 77.1%) compared to a passive control group (39.6% to 47.8%) (p < .001, ηp2 = .15). This result was replicated on a much smaller scale (37 five…
French preschool and primary teachers' attitude towards finger counting
Teachers' beliefs and attitudes are known to guide the type of activities they implement in their classrooms. A traditional conception that finger counting is merely a back-up when children fail to use more sophisticated and efficient strategies could therefore prevent teachers from encouraging children's use of fingers in arithmetic tasks. However, the potential benefit of finger counting for young learners has been recently documented and setti…
Reading numbers is harder than reading words
We recorded the eye movements of adults reading aloud short (four digit) and long (eight to 11 digit) Arabic numerals compared to matched-in-length words and pseudowords. We presented each item in isolation, at the center of the screen. Participants read each item aloud at their pace, and then pressed the spacebar to display the next item. Reading accuracy was 99 %. Results showed that adults make 2.5 times more fixations when reading short numer…
Acquisition of new arithmetic skills based on prior arithmetic skills
BACKGROUND: In several countries, children's math skills have been declining at an alarming rate in recent years and decades, and one of the explanations for this alarming situation is that children have difficulties in establishing the relations between arithmetical operations. AIM: In order to address this question, our goal was to determine the predictive power of previously taught operations on newly taught ones above general cognitive skills…
The Evolution of Finger Counting between Kindergarten and Grade 2
In this longitudinal study, we aimed at determining whether children who efficiently use finger counting are more likely to develop internalized arithmetic strategies than children who are less efficient. More precisely, we analyzed the behavior of 24 kindergarteners aged between 5 and 6 years who used their fingers to solve addition problems, and we were interested in determining the evolution of their finger counting strategies towards mental s…
Are small additions solved by direct retrieval from memory or automated counting procedures? A rejoinder to Chen and Campbell (2018)
Contrary to the longstanding and consensual hypothesis that adults mainly solve small single-digit additions by directly retrieving their answer from long-term memory, it has been recently argued that adults could solve small additions through fast automated counting procedures. In a recent article, Chen and Campbell ( Psychonomic Bulletin & Review , 25 , 739–753, 2018) reviewed the main empirical evidence on which this alternative hypothesis is …
Scrutinizing patterns of solution times in alphabet-arithmetic tasks favors counting over retrieval models
Les inégalités dans les pays de l’Ocde
Inégalité des revenus et protection sociale
L'écart entre riches et pauvres s'est considérablement creusé depuis trois décennies dans les pays de l'OCDE. Cet accroissement des inégalités est largement imputable à des évolutions structurelles du marché du travail et de la distribution des salaires. Dans plusieurs pays, des évolutions sociétales telles que la réduction de la taille des foyers ou la plus grande homogamie sociale ont également joué un rôle, de moindre ampleur toutefois. Enfin,…
The Use of the Operand-Recognition Paradigm for the Study of Mental Addition in Older Adults
Older adults, in contrast with younger adults, are able to retrieve the results of addition problems of medium difficulty. Contrary to what was suggested, older participants do not seem to resort to backup strategies for such problems. Finally, older adults' reliance on the more efficient retrieval strategy allowed them to catch up to younger adults in terms of solution times
La norme ISO 14001 est-elle efficace ? Une étude économétrique sur l'industrie française. Suivi d'un commentaire de Gilles Grolleau et Naoufel Mzoughi
Ist die Norm ISO 14001 wirksam ? Eine ökonometrische Studie über die französische Industrie Immer mehr französische Unternehmen beschließen die Einführung eines „ Umweltmanagementsystems“, das heißt eines Systems zur Messung und Verringerung der Umweltbelastungen, das sie dann gemäß der Norm ISO 14001 zertifi zieren lassen. In diesem Artikel soll die ökologische Wirksamkeit dieser Praktik anhand einer Stichprobe von mehreren Tausend Industriebetr…
Internationalisation des réseaux de R&D
Internationalisierung der FuE-Netze: ein Ansatz nach Unternehmensbeziehungen. Seit fünfzehn Jahren findet eine verstärkte internationale Öffnung der Unternehmen im Bereich der FuE statt. Welche Vorteile veranlassen die Unternehmen, trotz potenziell hoher Kosten aufgrund der Entfernung ihre FuE ganz oder teilweise zu verlagern? Theoretisch spielen drei Gründe eine Rolle: der Erwerb oder die Ausweitung von Fachwissen, die Eroberung neuer Märkte ode…
Finger counting training enhances addition performance in kindergarteners
Our study on 328 five- to six-year-old kindergarteners (mainly White European living in France, 152 girls) shows that children who do not count on their fingers and undergo finger counting training exhibit drastic improvement in their addition skills from pre-test to post-test (i.e., accuracy from 37.3% to 77.1%) compared to a passive control group (39.6% to 47.8%) (p < .001, ηp2 = .15). This result was replicated on a much smaller scale (37 five…
La norme ISO 14001 est-elle efficace ? Une étude économétrique sur l'industrie française. Suivi d'un commentaire de Gilles Grolleau et Naoufel Mzoughi
Ist die Norm ISO 14001 wirksam ? Eine ökonometrische Studie über die französische Industrie Immer mehr französische Unternehmen beschließen die Einführung eines „ Umweltmanagementsystems“, das heißt eines Systems zur Messung und Verringerung der Umweltbelastungen, das sie dann gemäß der Norm ISO 14001 zertifi zieren lassen. In diesem Artikel soll die ökologische Wirksamkeit dieser Praktik anhand einer Stichprobe von mehreren Tausend Industriebetr…
Internationalisation des réseaux de R&D
Internationalisierung der FuE-Netze: ein Ansatz nach Unternehmensbeziehungen. Seit fünfzehn Jahren findet eine verstärkte internationale Öffnung der Unternehmen im Bereich der FuE statt. Welche Vorteile veranlassen die Unternehmen, trotz potenziell hoher Kosten aufgrund der Entfernung ihre FuE ganz oder teilweise zu verlagern? Theoretisch spielen drei Gründe eine Rolle: der Erwerb oder die Ausweitung von Fachwissen, die Eroberung neuer Märkte ode…
La norme ISO 14001 est-elle efficace ? Une étude économétrique sur l'industrie française. Suivi d'un commentaire de Gilles Grolleau et Naoufel Mzoughi
Ist die Norm ISO 14001 wirksam ? Eine ökonometrische Studie über die französische Industrie Immer mehr französische Unternehmen beschließen die Einführung eines „ Umweltmanagementsystems“, das heißt eines Systems zur Messung und Verringerung der Umweltbelastungen, das sie dann gemäß der Norm ISO 14001 zertifi zieren lassen. In diesem Artikel soll die ökologische Wirksamkeit dieser Praktik anhand einer Stichprobe von mehreren Tausend Industriebetr…
The Use of the Operand-Recognition Paradigm for the Study of Mental Addition in Older Adults
Older adults, in contrast with younger adults, are able to retrieve the results of addition problems of medium difficulty. Contrary to what was suggested, older participants do not seem to resort to backup strategies for such problems. Finally, older adults' reliance on the more efficient retrieval strategy allowed them to catch up to younger adults in terms of solution times
Les inégalités dans les pays de l’Ocde
Inégalité des revenus et protection sociale
L'écart entre riches et pauvres s'est considérablement creusé depuis trois décennies dans les pays de l'OCDE. Cet accroissement des inégalités est largement imputable à des évolutions structurelles du marché du travail et de la distribution des salaires. Dans plusieurs pays, des évolutions sociétales telles que la réduction de la taille des foyers ou la plus grande homogamie sociale ont également joué un rôle, de moindre ampleur toutefois. Enfin,…
Are small additions solved by direct retrieval from memory or automated counting procedures? A rejoinder to Chen and Campbell (2018)
Contrary to the longstanding and consensual hypothesis that adults mainly solve small single-digit additions by directly retrieving their answer from long-term memory, it has been recently argued that adults could solve small additions through fast automated counting procedures. In a recent article, Chen and Campbell ( Psychonomic Bulletin & Review , 25 , 739–753, 2018) reviewed the main empirical evidence on which this alternative hypothesis is …
Scrutinizing patterns of solution times in alphabet-arithmetic tasks favors counting over retrieval models
The Evolution of Finger Counting between Kindergarten and Grade 2
In this longitudinal study, we aimed at determining whether children who efficiently use finger counting are more likely to develop internalized arithmetic strategies than children who are less efficient. More precisely, we analyzed the behavior of 24 kindergarteners aged between 5 and 6 years who used their fingers to solve addition problems, and we were interested in determining the evolution of their finger counting strategies towards mental s…
French preschool and primary teachers' attitude towards finger counting
Teachers' beliefs and attitudes are known to guide the type of activities they implement in their classrooms. A traditional conception that finger counting is merely a back-up when children fail to use more sophisticated and efficient strategies could therefore prevent teachers from encouraging children's use of fingers in arithmetic tasks. However, the potential benefit of finger counting for young learners has been recently documented and setti…
Reading numbers is harder than reading words
We recorded the eye movements of adults reading aloud short (four digit) and long (eight to 11 digit) Arabic numerals compared to matched-in-length words and pseudowords. We presented each item in isolation, at the center of the screen. Participants read each item aloud at their pace, and then pressed the spacebar to display the next item. Reading accuracy was 99 %. Results showed that adults make 2.5 times more fixations when reading short numer…
Acquisition of new arithmetic skills based on prior arithmetic skills
BACKGROUND: In several countries, children's math skills have been declining at an alarming rate in recent years and decades, and one of the explanations for this alarming situation is that children have difficulties in establishing the relations between arithmetical operations. AIM: In order to address this question, our goal was to determine the predictive power of previously taught operations on newly taught ones above general cognitive skills…
Eye movements when reading Arabic numbers in sentences
Finger counting training enhances addition performance in kindergarteners
Our study on 328 five- to six-year-old kindergarteners (mainly White European living in France, 152 girls) shows that children who do not count on their fingers and undergo finger counting training exhibit drastic improvement in their addition skills from pre-test to post-test (i.e., accuracy from 37.3% to 77.1%) compared to a passive control group (39.6% to 47.8%) (p < .001, ηp2 = .15). This result was replicated on a much smaller scale (37 five…
Counting on automatization
Counting procedures may automatize with development rather than being replaced. • Arithmetic fluency may emerge through quantitative not qualitative change. • Same neural mechanisms support problem-size effects from childhood to adulthood. • Developmental changes reflect increasing procedural efficiency, not strategy shift. • Dyscalculia may involve impaired procedural automatization across development. Counting—enumerating sets by establishing o…
The role of children’s finger counting history on their addition skills
It has been established that whereas young children who use their fingers to solve arithmetic problems outperform those who do not, this trend reverses in older children around the age of 7. One possible interpretation is that finger counting is helpful for solving simple problems but becomes inadequate as problem complexity increases, leaving finger users reliant on strategies that are no longer efficient. Another possibility is that nonfinger u…
Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (5 works) · Arithmetic (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)