Language affects symbolic arithmetic in children: The case of number word inversion

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-25

  Göbel, Silke M ^a   Moeller, Korbinian ^b,c   Pixner, Silvia ^d   Kaufmann, Liane ^e   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UMIT The Health and Life Sciences University   (Austria)

^e GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Addition; Carry effect; Cross linguistic comparison; Number word inversion; Place value understanding; Verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

ADDITION; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CARRY EFFECT; CHILD; CROSS-LINGUISTIC COMPARISON; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; NUMBER WORD INVERSION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACE-VALUE UNDERSTANDING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL WORKING MEMORY;

ADDITION; CARRY EFFECT; CROSS-LINGUISTIC COMPARISON; NUMBER WORD INVERSION; PLACE-VALUE UNDERSTANDING; VERBAL WORKING MEMORY;

AUSTRIA; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84888026759     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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