On the Perceptual Generality of the Unit-Decade Compatibility Effect

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 72-79

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

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental number line; Number comparison; Semantic magnitude representation; Spatial number representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; VISION;

ADULT; COGNITION; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1542289068     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.51.1.72     Document Type: Article

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