Children's mappings between number words and the approximate number system

Cognition

Volumn 138, Issue , 2015, Pages 102-121

  Odic, Darko ^a   Le Corre, Mathieu ^b   Halberda, Justin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition of number; Approximate number system; Cardinality principle; Natural numbers

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE NUMBER SYSTEM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; COGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 84923163805     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.01.008     Document Type: Article

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