Electrophysiological Evidence for the Involvement of the Approximate Number System in Preschoolers' Processing of Spoken Number Words

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1891-1904

  Pinhas, Michal ^a   Donohue, Sarah E ^a   Woldorff, Marty G ^a   Brannon, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; READING; STATISTICS; TIME FACTOR; VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84905157814     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00631     Document Type: Article

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