Big time is not always long: Numerical magnitude automatically affects time reproduction

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1567-1573

  Chang, Acer Y C ^a,b   Tzeng, Ovid J L ^a,b,c   Hung, Daisy L ^a,b   Wu, Denise H ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

cognitive processes; number comprehension; response bias; time perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055192095     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611418837     Document Type: Article

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