Size before numbers: Conceptual size primes numerical value

Cognition

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-23

  Gabay, Shai ^a   Leibovich, Tali ^b   Henik, Avishai ^b   Gronau, Nurit ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conceptual size; Congruency effect; Numerical processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RETINA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CONCEPTUAL SIZE; CONGRUENCY EFFECT; NUMERICAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; SIZE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879733170     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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