Typical and atypical development of basic numerical magnitude representations: A review of behavioral and neuroimaging studies

The Developmental Relations among Mind, Brain and Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 105-127

  Ansari, Daniel ^a   Price, Gavin ^a   Holloway, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3666-7_5     Document Type: Chapter

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