Spontaneous Usage of Different Shortcuts Based on the Commutativity Principle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Gaschler, Robert ^a,b   Vaterrodt, Bianca ^b   Frensch, Peter A ^b   Eichler, Alexandra ^c   Haider, Hilde ^c  

^a Institut für Integrierte Naturwissenschaften   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUTATIVITY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORTCUT; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884523384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074972     Document Type: Article

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