Developmental Gains in Visuospatial Memory Predict Gains in Mathematics Achievement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Li, Yaoran ^a   Geary, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING;

EID: 84881123496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070160     Document Type: Article

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