Human infants' preference for left-to-right oriented increasing numerical sequences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  De Hevia, Maria Dolores ^a,b   Girelli, Luisa ^c   Addabbo, Margaret ^c   Cassia, Viola Macchi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; READING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SYMBOLISM; WRITING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME;

FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84900436292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096412     Document Type: Article

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