Learning and development of embodied numerosity

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2012, Pages

  Moeller, Korbinian ^a,b   Fischer, Ursula ^a   Link, Tanja ^b   Wasner, Mirjam ^b   Huber, Stefan ^a   Cress, Ulrike ^a   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^a,b  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Embodied numerosity; Finger counting; Number processing; Spatial numerical associations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMBODIED NUMEROSITY; HUMAN; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; MENTAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; AGE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FINGER; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; COGNITION; FINGERS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84872764113     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-012-0457-9     Document Type: Article

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