An open trial assessment of "the number race", an adaptive computer game for remediation of dyscalculia

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wilson, Anna J ^a   Revkin, Susannah K ^a   Cohen, David ^d   Cohen, Laurent ^a,c   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DYSCALCULIA; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PLAY THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICS; ONLINE SYSTEM; OPEN STUDY;

EID: 33747337734     PISSN: 17449081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-2-20     Document Type: Article

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