Squeezing, striking, and vocalizing: Is number representation fundamentally spatial?

Cognition

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-235

  Núñez, Rafael ^a   Doan, D ^a   Nikoulina, Anastasia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Mathematical cognition; Number estimation; Number line; Number representation; Reporting methods; Task context

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959258331     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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