Evidence for Direct Retrieval of Relative Quantity Information in a Quantity Judgment Task: Decimals, Integers, and the Role of Physical Similarity

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1389-1398

  Cohen, Dale J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Decimals; Numerical cognition; Numerical distance; Quantity judgment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENT; TIME;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78249251458     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020212     Document Type: Article

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