Naturally biased? In search for reaction time evidence for a natural number bias in adults

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 344-355

  Vamvakoussi, Xenia ^a   Van Dooren, Wim ^b   Verschaffel, Lieven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dual process perspective; Intuitive and analytic reasoning; Natural number bias; Rational numbers; Reaction time methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862993778     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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