“…There is evidence to suggest that a nonsymbolic addition task (e.g., Barth, La Mont, Lipton, & Spelke, ) may be a more viable alternative measure of the ANS. Several studies (Barth, Beckmann, & Spelke, ; Barth et al, ; Li et al, ) have found that young children can perform above chance on this task and show similar patterns of responding as adults. Additionally, this task appears to measure a similar underlying construct as the Dot comparison task (Gilmore, Attridge, De Smedt, & Inglis, ).…”