The involvement of working memory in children's exact and approximate mental addition

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 141-160

  Caviola, Sara ^a   Mammarella, Irene C ^a   Cornoldi, Cesare ^a   Lucangeli, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Addition; Addition with carrying; Approximate calculation; Exact calculation; Mental calculation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84859767631     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.02.005     Document Type: Article

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