What makes counting count? Verbal and visuo-spatial contributions to typical and atypical number development

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-62

  Ansari, Daniel ^a   Donlan, Chris ^b   Thomas, Michael S C ^a   Ewing, Sandra A ^a   Peen, Tiffany ^a   Karmiloff Smith, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardinality; Counting; Developmental disorders; Numerical cognition; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 0037698625     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0965(03)00026-2     Document Type: Article

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