What makes multiplication facts difficult: Problem size or neighborhood consistency?

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 275-282

  Domahs, Frank ^a   Delazer, Margarete ^b   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c Fachbereich Psychologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Consistency; Multiplication fact retrieval; Operand errors; Problem size effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 36549053896     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.53.4.275     Document Type: Article

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