Holistic or compositional representation of two-digit numbers? Evidence from the distance, magnitude, and SNARC effects in a number-matching task

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1525-1536

  Zhou, Xinlin ^a,b   Chen, Chuansheng ^c   Chen, Lan ^a   Dong, Qi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Number cognition; Representation; SNARC effect; Two digit number processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISTANCE EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNITUDE EFFECT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL NUMERICAL ASSOCIATION OF RESPONSE CODE EFFECT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 38649127245     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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