Publications and Grants

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External Current Grants

NSF-EHR Core Research ECR – awarded (2019). Impact of language experience on early numerical cognition. Role: PI; NSF – 1916524

Peer reviewed publications

Berteletti, I., Sullivan, S.*, & Lancaster, L.* (Accepted, 06/2021). The unexplored role of hand shape similarity in processing numbers on the hands. Journal of Numerical Cognition. [preprint, data]

Suarez-Pellicioni, M., Berteletti, I., & Booth, J.R. (2020). Early engagement of quantity mechanisms predicts gains in subtraction fluency in children.

Mou, Y., Berteletti, I., & Hyde, D.C. (2018) What counts in preschool number knowledge? A Bayes factor analytic approach toward theoretical model development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 166, 116-133.

Sella, F., Berteletti, I., Lucangeli, D., & Zorzi, M. (2017) Preschool children use space, rather than counting, to infer digits’ numerical magnitude: evidence for a spatial mapping principle. Cognition, 158, 56-67.

Hyde, D.C., Simon, C.E., Berteletti, I., & Mou, Y. (2017). The relationship between non-verbal systems of number and counting development: A neural signature approach. Developmental Science, 20(6), e12464.

Khanum, S., Hanif, R., Seplke, E.S., Berteletti, I., & Hyde, D.C. (2016). Effects of non-symbolic approximate number practice on symbolic numerical abilities in Pakistani children. PLOS One, 11(10), e0164436.

Sella, F., Berteletti, I., Lucangeli, D., & Zorzi, M. (2016). Spontaneous non-verbal counting in toddlers. Developmental Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12299

Sella, F., Berteletti, I., Lucangeli, D., & Zorzi, M. (2015). Varieties of quantity estimation in children. Developmental Psychology, 51(6), 758-770.

Berteletti, I. and Booth J.R. (2015). Perceiving fingers in single-digit arithmetic problems. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 226. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00226

Berteletti, I., Man, G., & Booth J.R. (2015). How number line estimation skills relate to neural activations in single digit subtraction problems. NeuroImage, 107, 198-206.

Lanfranchi, S., Berteletti, I., Torrisi, E., Vianello, R., & Zorzi, M. (2015). Numerical estimation in children with Down syndrome. Research and Developmental Disabilities, 36, 222-229.

Berteletti, I., Prado, J., & Booth, J.R. (2014). Children with mathematical learning disability fail in recruiting verbal and numerical brain regions when solving simple multiplication problems. Cortex, 57, 143-155.

Knops, A., Dehaene, S., Berteletti, I., & Zorzi, M. (2014). Can approximate mental calculation account for operational momentum in addition and subtraction? The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(8),1541-1556.

Sella, F., Berteletti, I., Brazzolotto, M., Lucangeli, D., & Zorzi, M. (2013). Number line estimation in children with developmental dyscalculia. Learning Disabilities: a Contemporary Journal, 11(2).

Berteletti, I., Lucangeli, D., & Zorzi M. (2012). Representation of numerical and non-numerical ordered sequences in children. Cognition, 124, 304-313.

Berteletti, I., DeFilippo, M., & Zorzi, M. (2012). “La Gara dei Numeri”: un videogioco educativo per il potenziamento delle abilità numeriche e il trattamento della discalculia. Difficoltà in Matematica, 9(1), ISSN 1123-928X

Bonato, M., Sella, F., Berteletti, I., & Umiltà, C. (2011). Neuropsychology is nothing without control: A potential fallacy hidden in clinical studies. Cortex, 48, 353-355.

Piazza, M., Facoetti, A., Trussardi, A.N., Berteletti, I., Conte, S., Lucangeli, D., Dehaene, S., & Zorzi, M. (2010). Developmental trajectory of number acuity reveals a severe impairment in developmental dyscalculia. Cognition, 116, 33-41.

Berteletti, I., Hubbard, E.M., & Zorzi, M. (2010). Implicit versus explicit interference effects in a number-color synaesthete. Cortex, 46, 170-177.

Berteletti, I., Lucangeli, D., Piazza, M, Dehaene, S., & Zorzi, M. (2010). Numerical estimation in preschoolers. Developmental Psychology, 46, 545-551. 



*Dr Berteletti's graduate or undergraduate students advisees. 

Educational Articles, Book Chapters and Software

Hyde, D.C., Berteletti, I., & Mou, Y. (2016). Approximate numerical abilities and mathematics: Insight from correlational and experimental training studies. In: Cappelletti, M., & Fias, W. Progress in Brain Research Volume 227, Amsterdam: Elseiver

Berteletti, I., and Booth J.R. (2015). Finger representation and finger-based strategies in the acquisition of number meaning and arithmetic. In: Berch, D.B., Geary D.C., & Mann Koepke, K. Development of mathematical cognition: Neural substrates and genetic influences. Volume II: Mathematical Cognition and Learning series.

Zorzi, M., Berteletti, I., & Lucangeli, D. (2010). Modelli neuropsicologici e basi neurali della cognizione numerica. In: Lucangeli D., Mammarella I.C. Psicologia della Cognizione Numerica - Approcci teorici, valutazione, intervento. Franco Angeli, ISBN/ISSN: 8856824620

Lucangeli, D., Sella, F., & Berteletti, I. (2012). Teacher’s guide book. In: Lucangeli D. La discalculia e le difficoltà in aritmetica. Giunti Scuola, ISBN: 8809764412

Berteletti, I., DeFilippo, M., & Zorzi, M. (2012). Italian translation of “The Number Race: Teaching arithmetic and the treatement of dyscalculia” software version 2.3. Wilson, A. & Dehaene, S. http://www.thenumberrace.com/nr/nr_download.php?lang=en