Direction counts: A comparative study of spatially directional counting biases in cultures with different reading directions

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 275-281

  Shaki, Samuel ^a   Fischer, Martin H ^b   Göbel, Silke M ^c  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counting; Cross cultural; Mental Number; Number space association; Numerical cognition; Reading direction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MIDDLE EAST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MIDDLE EAST; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84859741657     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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