On the language specificity of basic number processing: Transcoding in a language with inversion and its relation to working memory capacity.
Transcoding Arabic numbers from and into verbal number words is one of the most basic number processing tasks commonly used to index the verbal representation of numbers. The inversion property, which is an important feature of some number word systems (e.g., German einundzwanzig [one and twenty]),...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Vol. 102; no. 1; pp. 60 - 78 |
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Academic Press Inc.
January 2009
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