Gaze orientation interferes with mental numerical representation

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 375-379

  Brunamonti, Emiliano ^a   Falcone, Rossella ^a   Genovesio, Aldo ^a   Costa, Stefania ^a   Ferraina, Stefano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gaze orientation; Mental number line; Numerical; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL NUMERICAL REPRESENTATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL LEARNING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84871809159     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-012-0517-1     Document Type: Article

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