Accounting for individual variability in inversion shortcut use

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 687-693

  Dubé, Adam K ^a   Robinson, Katherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analogical reasoning; Arithmetic; Division; Inversion; Mathematical cognition; Multiplication; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149499366     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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