Number without a language model

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3163-3168

  Spaepen, Elizabet ^a   Coppola, Marie ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^b   Carey, Susan E ^b   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deafness; Gestural communication; Language and thought; Numerical cognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NICARAGUA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DEAFNESS; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 79952745392     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015975108     Document Type: Article

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