The role of visual information in numerosity estimation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Gebuis, Titia ^a   Reynvoet, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUMEROSITY ESTIMATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; MATHEMATICS; VISION;

ADULT; CUES; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861215295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037426     Document Type: Article

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