Memory abilities in children with subtypes of dyscalculia

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 801-818

  Rosselli, Mónica ^a   Matute, Esmeralda ^b   Pinto, Noemí ^b   Ardila, Alfredo ^c  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSCALCULIA; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY DISORDER; MEXICO; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

APTITUDE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 33751579318     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15326942dn3003_3     Document Type: Article

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