Education Enhances the Acuity of the Nonverbal Approximate Number System

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1037-1043

  Piazza, Manuela ^a,b,c,d   Pica, Pierre ^e   Izard, Véronique ^f,g   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^h   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b,c,i  

^a Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit INSERM ^*  (France)

^b NeuroSpin   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ College de France)   (France)

Author keywords

cross cultural differences; mathematical ability; perception; sociocultural factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878684960     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612464057     Document Type: Article

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