Language effects in magnitude comparison: Small, but not irrelevant

Brain and Language

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 262-277

  Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^a   Weger, Ulrich ^b   Willmes, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstract semantic representation; Distance effect; Language specificity; Mental number line; Number comparison

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; SELF COMPATIBILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 13844275671     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.06.107     Document Type: Article

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