Nonverbal Counting in Humans: The Psychophysics of Number Representation

Psychological Science

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 130-137

  Whalen, John ^b   Gallistel, C R ^a   Gelman, Rochel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 0242618983     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00120     Document Type: Article

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