Individual differences in children's mathematical competence are related to the intentional but not automatic processing of Arabic numerals

Cognition

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-44

  Bugden, Stephanie ^a   Ansari, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distance effect; Mathematical achievement; Numerical cognition; Ratio effect; Size congruity effect

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL FUNCTION;

CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES;

EID: 79952786772     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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