Walk the number line - An embodied training of numerical concepts

Trends in Neuroscience and Education

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 74-84

  Link, Tanja ^a   Moeller, Korbinian ^b   Huber, Stefan ^b   Fischer, Ursula ^a,b   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied training; Mental number line; Spatial magnitude representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBODIED COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84882245232     PISSN: 22119493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tine.2013.06.005     Document Type: Article

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