False approximations of the approximate number system?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Gebuis, Titia ^a,b   van der Smagt, Maarten J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; APPROXIMATE NUMBER SYSTEM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; APTITUDE; CHILD; MATHEMATICS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION;

ADULT; APTITUDE; CHILD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053959894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025405     Document Type: Article

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