Language effects on children's nonverbal number line estimations

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 598-613

  Helmreich, Iris ^a   Zuber, Julia ^b   Pixner, Silvia ^a   Kaufmann, Liane ^a,c   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^b   Moeller, Korbinian ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

inversion; language properties; mental number line; number line task

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956107257     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022111406026     Document Type: Article

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