Random walks on the mental number line

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-49

  Shaki, Samuel ^a   Fischer, Martin H ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mental number line; RNG; SNARC; Spatial bias; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; MENTAL NUMBER LINE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891877096     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3718-7     Document Type: Article

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