A feeling for numbers: Shared metric for symbolic and tactile numerosities

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Krause, Florian ^a   Bekkering, Harold ^a   Lindemann, Oliver ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finger counting; Number cognition; Tactile perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874749255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00007     Document Type: Article

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