Language effects in addition: How you say it counts

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 965-983

  Colomé, Àngels ^a   Laka, Itziar ^b   Sebastian Galles, Nuria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Addition; Language; Number comparison; Numerical cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; STUDENT; SYMBOLISM; UNIVERSITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; SYMBOLISM; UNIVERSITIES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77951731581     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210903134377     Document Type: Article

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