Exploring the roles of the visual-spatial sketch pad and central executive in children's arithmetical skills: Views from cognition and developmental neuropsychology

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 421-442

  Bull, Rebecca ^a   Johnston, Rhona S ^a   Roy, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032925476     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87565649909540759     Document Type: Article

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