“Mental abacus”: The effect of abacus training on Chinese children's mental calculation

1984/04/01 by James W. Stigler · 271 citations
Engineering · Mathematics · Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Abacus (architecture) #Cognition #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills #Medicine #Mental arithmetic #Mental image #Psychiatry #Psychology #Spatial Cognition and Navigation #Tactile and Sensory Interactions

paper · doi:10.1016/0010-0285(84)90006-9

published in Cognitive Psychology 16(2), 145-176 (Elsevier BV)

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