Relationships between magnitude representation, counting and memory in 4- to 7-year-old children: A developmental study

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Soltész, Fruzsina ^a   Szucs, Dénes ^a,b   Szucs, Lívia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c Kikelet Óvoda   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINDERGARTEN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VERBALIZATION; AGE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77949450731     PISSN: 17449081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-6-13     Document Type: Article

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