“…The ANS has been repeatedly shown to be linked to formal mathematics in children (Malykh et al, 2017;Tikhomirova et al, 2014;Desoete, Ceulemans, De Weerdt, Pieters, 2012;Gilmore, McCarthy &Spelke, 2010;Halberda, Ly, Wilmer, Naiman&Germine, 2012), though the exact pattern of relationship is still to be confirmed (Tikhomirova et al, 2015;Inglis, Attridge, Batchelor& Gilmore, 2011;Soltész et al, 2010). Starr and colleagues have shown, that even the earliest measures of preverbal number sense can be predictive for standardized maths ability 3 years later (Starr et al, 2013).…”