Australia: Using Mental Representations Of Space When Words Are Unavailable: Studies Of ...

Australia: Using Mental Representations Of Space When Words Are Unavailable: Studies Of Enumeration And Arithmetic In Indigenous Australia Brian Butterworth, Robert Reeve, and Fiona Reynolds, 2011   Here the authors describe the nature and use of spatial strategies in a standard nonverbal addition task in two groups of children who speak only languages in which counting words are not available, as compared with children who were raised speaking English. They tested speakers of Warlpiri and...

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