Spontaneous focusing on numerosity as a domain-specific predictor of arithmetical skills

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 394-406

  Hannula, Minna M ^a   Lepola, Janne ^a   Lehtinen, Erno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arithmetical skills; Attention; Children; Development; Focusing attention; Number

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955550906     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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