Sensitivity to number: Reply to Gebuis and Gevers

Cognition

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-255

  De Hevia, Maria Dolores ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Line bisection; Non numerical cues; Number; Spatial biases

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; OBSERVER BIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053131199     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.04.002     Document Type: Note

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