Children's understanding of number is similar to adults' and rats': Numerical estimation by 5-7-year-olds

Cognition

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Huntley Fenner, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation; Mathematical development; Number representation

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0035212202     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00122-0     Document Type: Article

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