Is 26 + 26 smaller than 24 + 28? Estimating the approximate magnitude of repeated versus different numbers

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 163-173

  Charras, Pom ^a,b   Brod, Garvin ^a   Lupiáñez, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Departamento de Psicología Experimental y de Fisiología del Comportamiento   (Spain)

Author keywords

Approximate magnitude; Comparison process; Numerical cognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SYMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SYMBOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856148495     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0217-4     Document Type: Article

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