Symbolic and non-symbolic distance effects in children and their connection with arithmetic skills

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 583-591

  Lonnemann, Jan ^a,b   Linkersdörfer, Janosch ^a,b   Hasselhorn, Marcus ^a,b,c   Lindberg, Sven ^b,c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk IDeA   (Germany)

^c GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arithmetic skills; Distance effect; Magnitude comparison; Non symbolic number representation; Numerical cognition; Symbolic number representation

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNITUDE COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79961030285     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: 18738052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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