Size congruity effects with two-digit numbers: Expanding the number line?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 445-457

  Fitousi, Daniel ^a   Algom, Daniel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745643412     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193421     Document Type: Article

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