Numerical thought with and without words: Evidence from indigenous Australian children

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 13179-13184

  Butterworth, Brian ^a   Reeve, Robert ^b   Reynolds, Fiona ^b   Lloyd, Delyth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Linguistic determinism; Mathematical cognition; Number concepts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THINKING;

AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; THINKING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 51349104361     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806045105     Document Type: Article

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