Relationships between approximate number system acuity and early symbolic number abilities

Trends in Neuroscience and Education

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-31

  Mussolin, Christophe ^a   Nys, Julie ^a   Leybaert, Jacqueline ^a   Content, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Approximate number system; Development; Non symbolic number; Symbolic number

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 84873290301     PISSN: 22119493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tine.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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