To carry or not to carry - Is this the question? Disentangling the carry effect in multi-digit addition

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-76

  Klein, Elise ^a,b,c   Moeller, Korbinian ^c   Dressel, Katharina ^a,b   Domahs, Frank ^a,b   Wood, Guilherme ^d   Willmes, Klaus ^a,b   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Addition; Carry over; Mental arithmetic; Problem size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77954384912     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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