The impact of mathematical proficiency on the number-space association

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Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hoffmann, Danielle ^a   Mussolin, Christophe ^b   Martin, Romain ^a   Schiltz, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; REACTION TIME; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MATHEMATICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84897004053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085048     Document Type: Article

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