Count Me In! On the Automaticity of Numerosity Processing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1053-1059

  Naparstek, Sharon ^a   Henik, Avishai ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Counting; Numerical value; Numerosity; Stroop; Subitizing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOMATISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954155905     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019766     Document Type: Article

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