When Numbers Get Heavy: Is the Mental Number Line Exclusively Numerical?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Holmes, Kevin J ^a   Lourenco, Stella F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARM WEIGHT CUFF AND SAND BAG; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL NUMERICAL ASSOCIATION OF RESPONSE CODES; THINKING;

FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874629965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058381     Document Type: Article

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