On the relation between the mental number line and arithmetic competencies

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1597-1613

  Link, Tanja ^a   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^a,b   Moeller, Korbinian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arithmetic competencies; Mental number line; Number line estimation; Numerical processes; Proportion judgement

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84904557878     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.892517     Document Type: Article

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