Effects of Counting in Alphabet Arithmetic: Opportunistic Stopping and Priming of Intermediate Steps

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 299-317

  Zbrodoff, N Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0033441594     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.25.2.299     Document Type: Article

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