Strategy use, the development of automaticity, and working memory involvement in complex multiplication

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 927-940

  Tronsky, Loel N ^a,b  

^a HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Albertus Magnus College New Haven   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; AUTOMATISM; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY;

AUTOMATISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33644876039     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193086     Document Type: Article

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