Children's performance on the 'give x' task: A microgenetic analysis of 'counting' and 'grabbing' behaviour

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-51

  Chetland, Elizabeth ^a   Fluck, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardinality; Cognitive representation; Counting; Strategy use

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847623371     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.499     Document Type: Article

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