Children's Arithmetical Difficulties: Contributions from Processing Speed, Item Identification, and Short-Term Memory

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-24

  Bull, Rebecca ^a   Johnston, Rhona S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY DISORDER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH;

EID: 0031114556     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1996.2358     Document Type: Article

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