How are number words mapped to approximate magnitudes?

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 389-402

  Sullivan, Jessica ^a   Barner, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Estimation; Numerical cognition; Structure mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84873133894     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.715655     Document Type: Article

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