Standardized assessment of strategy use and working memory in early mental arithmetic performance

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 365-393

  Wu, Sarah S ^a   Meyer, Meghan L ^a   Maeda, Uta ^a   Salimpoor, Valorie ^b   Tomiyama, Sylvia ^a   Geary, David C ^c   Menon, Vinod ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SELF REPORT; WORKING MEMORY; ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROC CURVE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROC CURVE;

EID: 45149084991     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87565640801982445     Document Type: Article

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