Spatial representations of numbers and letters in children

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Lonnemann, Jan ^a,b   Linkersdörfer, Janosch ^a,b   Nagler, Telse ^a,b   Hasselhorn, Marcus ^a,b,c   Lindberg, Sven ^a,b  

^a GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk IDeA   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardinal representations; Line bisection; Mental number line; Ordinal representations; Spatial representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885450355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00544     Document Type: Article

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