Mental movements without magnitude? A study of spatial biases in symbolic arithmetic

Cognition

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 408-415

  Pinhas, Michal ^a,b   Fischer, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mental arithmetic; Mental number line; Operational momentum; Pointing; SNARC effect; Zero problems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL FUNCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56349160597     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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