The revelation of the negative side of a mental number line depends on list context: Evidence from a sign priming paradigm

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1248-1260

  Tse, Chi Shing ^a   Altarriba, Jeanette ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental number line; Negative numbers; Spatial numerical association

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 78649657579     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440903427495     Document Type: Article

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