Factors and primes: a specific numerical ability
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 20 (1) , 163-169
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700013349
Abstract
SYNOPSIS An autistic young man and a normal control were asked to factorize numbers and to recognize and generate primes. Both subjects made a similar of errors and employed similar strategies, but they differed markedly in the speeds at which the arithmetical operations were carried out.Keywords
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