Sensori-motor spatial training of number magnitude representation

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 177-183

  Fischer, Ursula ^a   Moeller, Korbinian ^b   Bientzle, Martina ^a   Cress, Ulrike ^a   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^b  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Magnitude comparison; Mental number line; Number processing; Spatial numerical association; Training

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEACHING;

ACHIEVEMENT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79951855669     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-010-0031-3     Document Type: Article

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