Processing negative numbers by transforming negatives to positive range and by sign shortcut

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1021-1038

  Krajcsi, Attila ^a,b   Igács, János ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Analogue magnitude system; Negative numbers; Numerical distance effect; Spatial Numerical Association of Response Codes effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77957901840     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440903211113     Document Type: Article

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