Cognitive euroscience: Scalar variability in price estimation and the cognitive consequences of switching to the euro

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 705-731

  Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,c   Marques, J Frederico ^b  

^a DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSCIENCE; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSCIENCES; PERCEPTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0040077739     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980244000044     Document Type: Article

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