Mind the gap between both hands: Evidence for internal finger-based number representations in children's mental calculation

Cortex

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 359-367

  Domahs, Frank ^a   Krinzinger, Helga ^a   Willmes, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Addition; Arithmetic fact retrieval; Split five errors; Subtraction

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE;

EID: 44249094863     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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