Numeric comparison in a visually-guided manual reaching task

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 994-1003

  Song, Joo Hyun ^a   Nakayama, Ken ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curved trajectories; Initial movement direction; Number line; Numeric distance effect; Visually guided manual pointing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; LATENT PERIOD; MATHEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 37249066670     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.03.014     Document Type: Article

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