Psychophysics of numerical representation: Why seemingly logarithmic representations may rather be multi-linear

Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-70

  Moeller, Korbinian ^a,b   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

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EID: 80052226428     PISSN: 00443409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000048     Document Type: Article

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