The effect of external representations on numeric tasks

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 817-838

  Zhang, Jiajie ^a   Wang, Hongbin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; REACTION TIME;

COGNITION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 22544452421     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980443000340     Document Type: Article

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