Strategy switch costs in arithmetic problem solving

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 322-332

  Lemaire, Patrick ^a   Lecacheur, Mireille ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953573950     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.3.322     Document Type: Article

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