The influence of implicit hand-based representations on mental arithmetic

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue SEP, 2011, Pages

  Klein, Elise ^a,b   Moeller, Korbinian ^b,c   Willmes, Klaus ^a   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^b,c   Domahs, Frank ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Finger counting; Mental arithmetic; Sub base five

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859139789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00197     Document Type: Article

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