Dyscalculia: Neuroscience and education

Educational Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-175

  Kaufmann, Liane ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dyscalculia; Finger based calculation; Functional brain imaging; Mental number representations; Neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849149661     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: 14695847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131880802082658     Document Type: Review

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