Brief non-symbolic, approximate number practice enhances subsequent exact symbolic arithmetic in children.

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  2014

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  Cognition

• Publication date

  2014-04-01

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  Mathematics, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.12.007PMID 24462713PMCID PMC4061922
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