Differences between literates and illiterates on symbolic but not nonsymbolic numerical magnitude processing

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-100

  Zebian, Samar ^a   Ansari, Daniel ^b  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Enculturation; Literacy; Nonsymbolic; Numerical cognition; Numerical magnitude; Symbolic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856188435     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0175-9     Document Type: Article

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