Multimodal semantic quantity representations: Further evidence from Korean sign language

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2011, Pages

  Domahs, Frank ^a,b   Klein, Elise ^a,c   Moeller, Korbinian ^c,d   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^c,d   Yoon, Byung Chenand ^e   Willmes, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^e Korea Nazarene University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Arabic digits; Embodiment; Finger counting; Hand; Magnitude effect; Number comparison; Numerical size

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862684721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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