A hierarchical view of grounded, embodied, and situated numerical cognition

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2012, Pages

  Fischer, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Grounded cognition; Numerical cognition; SNARC effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMBODIED COGNITION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROIMAGING; NUMERICAL COGNITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL NUMERICAL ASSOCIATION OF RESPONSE CODE EFFECT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MATHEMATICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COGNITION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84872761751     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-012-0477-5     Document Type: Article

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