The use of procedural knowledge in simple addition and subtraction problems

Cognition

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 392-403

  Fayol, Michel ^a   Thevenot, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Numerical cognition; Priming; Strategies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859725093     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.02.008     Document Type: Article

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