Retrieval or nonretrieval strategies in mental arithmetic? An operand recognition paradigm

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1344-1352

  Thevenot, Catherine ^a   Fanget, Muriel ^b   Fayol, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SKILL;

EID: 35748982115     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193606     Document Type: Article

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