Operational momentum in large-number addition and subtraction by 9-month-olds

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 400-408

  McCrink, Koleen ^a   Wynn, Karen ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Infants; Mathematics; Number; Numerical operations; Operational Momentum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349165527     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.01.013     Document Type: Article

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