Eye gaze reveals a fast, parallel extraction of the syntax of arithmetic formulas

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 475-490

  Schneider, Elisa ^a   Maruyama, Masaki ^b,c,d,e   Dehaene, Stanislas ^b,c,d,e   Sigman, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Cognitive architecture; Gestalt; Language; Mathematical education

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTYPY; THINKING;

ADULT; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 84867404000     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.06.015     Document Type: Article

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