The impact of visuo-spatial number forms on simple arithmetic

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1261-1265

  Ward, Jamie ^a   Sagiv, Noam ^b   Butterworth, Brian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Number form; Numbers; SNARC; Space; Synaesthesia synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 69249120158     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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