Synesthesia and number cognition in children

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 463-473

  Green, Jennifer A K ^a   Goswami, Usha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grapheme colour; Number processing; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COLOR; COLOR VISION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNESTHESIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 36849020438     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.01.013     Document Type: Article

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