The odd-even effect in multiplication: Parity rule or familiarity with even numbers?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 358-365

  Lochy, Aliette ^a   Seron, Xavier ^a   Delazer, Margarete ^b   Butterworth, Brian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Universitatsklinik fur Neurochirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; FACILITATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0034129497     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03198551     Document Type: Article

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