Sixty-four or four-and-sixty? The influence of language and working memory on children’s number transcoding

Sixty-four or four-and-sixty? The influence of language and working memory on children’s number transcoding

Number transcoding (e.g., writing 64 when hearing ‘sixty-four’) is a basic numerical skill; faultlessly performed in adults, but rather difficult for children. In the present study, children speaking Dutch (an inversed number language) and French (a non-inversed number language) wrote Arabic digits...

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Main Authors: Ineke eImbo, Jolien eDe Brauwer, Charlotte eVanden Bulcke, Wim eFias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
working memory
Number transcoding
Number language
Place-value understanding
Transcoding errors
Inversion errors
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00313/full

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