What accounts for individual and gender differences in the multi-digit number processing of primary school children?

Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 78-89

  Krinzinger, Helga ^a   Wood, Guilherme ^b   Willmes, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Longitudinal study; Multi digit number processing; Psychobiosocial view; Spatial cognition hypothesis; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863634115     PISSN: 21908370     EISSN: 21512604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000099     Document Type: Article

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