The cognitive architecture for chaining of two mental operations

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-211

  Sackur, Jérôme ^a,b   Dehaene, Stanislas ^b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NeuroSpin   (France)

^c l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive architecture; Composite operations; Mental arithmetic; Subliminal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CUED RESPONSE METHOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL CHRONOMETRY; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIMING METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBLIMINAL FORCED CHOICE PROCEDURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COGNITION; CUES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63349084497     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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