When 9 is not on the right: Implications from number-form synesthesia

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 366-374

  Gertner, Limor ^a   Henik, Avishai ^a   Kadosh, Roi Cohen ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congruency effect; Distance effect; Implicit and explicit representation; Mental flexibility; Mental number line; Number form synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349126589     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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