Non-symbolic arithmetic in adults and young children

Cognition

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 199-222

  Barth, Hilary ^a   La Mont, Kristen ^a   Lipton, Jennifer ^a   Dehaene, Stanislas ^b   Kanwisher, Nancy ^c   Spelke, Elizabeth ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossmodal addition; Non symbolic numerosities; Symbolic arithmetic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; PERFORMANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBOLISM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; SYMBOLISM; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 30044442425     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.09.011     Document Type: Article

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