The role of vision in the development of finger-number interactions: Finger-counting and finger-montring in blind children

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 525-539

  Crollen, Virginie ^a   Mahe, Rachel ^a   Collignon, Olivier ^b,c   Seron, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindness; Enumeration; Finger counting; Finger montring; Finger number interactions; Numerical processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VISION;

BLINDNESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 79955472908     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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