On the problem-size effect in small additions: Can we really discard any counting-based account?

Cognition

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-44

  Barrouillet, Pierre ^a   Thevenot, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Mental addition; Numerical cognition; Strategies; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESPONSE TIME; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; INDIVIDUALITY; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876344810     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.02.018     Document Type: Article

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