What the eyes already 'know': Using eye movement measurement to tap into children's implicit numerical magnitude representations

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-186

  Heine, Angela ^a   Thaler, Verena ^a   Tamm, Sascha ^a   Hawelka, Stefan ^b   Schneider, Michael ^c   Torbeyns, Joke ^d   de Smedt, Bert ^d   Verschaffel, Lieven ^d   Stern, Elsbeth ^c   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Eye movements; Implicit knowledge; Number line estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649289636     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.640     Document Type: Article

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