Mental multiplication: Nothing but the facts?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1087-1096

  Manly, Charlotte F ^a   Spoehr, Kathryn T ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032741425     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201238     Document Type: Article

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