What do semi-illiterate adults know about 2-digit Arabic numbers?

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-56

  Wood, Guilherme ^a   Nuerk, Hans C ^a   Freitas, Patrícia ^b   Freitas, Gianna ^b   WIllmes, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atomaticity; Multidigit number magnitude; Processing speed; Semi illiterates; Unit decade compatibility effect

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33646137392     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70321-6     Document Type: Article

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