A hand full of numbers: A role for offloading in arithmetics learning?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Costa, Annelise Júlio ^a   Silva, Júlia Beatriz Lopes ^a   Chagas, Pedro Pinheiro ^a   Krinzinger, Helga ^b   Lonneman, Jan ^c,d,e   Willmes, Klaus ^c   Wood, Guilherme ^f   Haase, Vitor Geraldi ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dyscalculia; Finger gnosia; Mathematics difficulties; Number sense

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862670679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00368     Document Type: Article

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