Neurocognitive correlates of dyscalculia;Neurokognitive korrelate der dyskalkulie

Kindheit und Entwicklung

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-20

  Lonnemann, Jan ^a,b,c   Linkersdörfer, Janosch ^a,b,c   Hasselhorn, Marcus ^a,b   Lindberg, Sven ^a  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Geteilte Erstautorenschaft ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Dyscalculia; Neuroscience; Number processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650345282     PISSN: 09425403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026/0942-5403/a000036     Document Type: Article

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