Bilingual memory span advantage for Arabic numerals over digit words

British Journal of Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 295-310

  Chincotta, Dino ^a,b   Underwood, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031501001     PISSN: 20448295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1997.tb02636.x     Document Type: Article

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