Task- and age-dependent effects of visual stimulus properties on children's explicit numerosity judgments

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 216-233

  Defever, Emmy ^a   Reynvoet, Bert ^a   Gebuis, Titia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Comparison; Mathematics achievement; Numerosity judgment; Same different; Visual properties

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUMEROSITY JUDGMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SAME-DIFFERENT; VISUAL PROPERTIES;

COMPARISON; MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT; NUMEROSITY JUDGMENT; SAME-DIFFERENT; VISUAL PROPERTIES;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84880389154     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.04.006     Document Type: Article

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