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Does finger sense really have a delayed effect on children’s addition performance?

[A comment of Newman, S.D. Does finger sense predict addition performance? Cognitive Processing, 17(2), 2016, pp. 139–146]

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Fischer, JP. Does finger sense really have a delayed effect on children’s addition performance?. Cogn Process 18, 105–106 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-016-0782-5

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