A working memory account for spatial-numerical associations

Cognition

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 114-119

  van Dijck, Jean Philippe ^a   Fias, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Numbers; Ordinal coding; SNARC; Space; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; READING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951956929     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.12.013     Document Type: Article

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