Can young infants add and subtract?

Child Development

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1525-1534

  Wakeley, Ann ^a,b   Rivera, Susan ^c   Langer, Jonas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0034330322     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00244     Document Type: Article

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