When the mental number line involves a delay: The writing of numbers by children of different arithmetical abilities

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-39

  van Loosbroek, Erik ^a   Dirkx, Goedele S M A ^a   Hulstijn, Wouter ^b,c   Janssen, Firmin ^d  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d Centre for Speech Language and Learning Disabilities   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Mental arithmetic; Mental number line; Nonsemantic route; Number size effect; Numbers; Semantic route; Transcoding

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WRITING;

APTITUDE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WRITING;

EID: 55849133373     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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