Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 10 , Pages 1261-1265 , November 2009

The impact of visuo-spatial number forms on simple arithmetic

  • Jamie Ward

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.
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  • Noam Sagiv

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging, Brunel University, UK
    • ,
  • Brian Butterworth

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University College London, UK

Received 11 November 2008 ,Revised 2 March 2009 ,Accepted 25 March 2009.

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PII: S0010-9452(09)00213-5

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.03.017

Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 10 , Pages 1261-1265 , November 2009

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