Decimal fraction representations are not distinct from natural number representations - evidence from a combined eye-tracking and computational modeling approach

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Huber, Stefan ^a,b   Klein, Elise ^a,c   Willmes, Klaus ^c   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^a,b   Moeller, Korbinian ^a,b  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Compatibility effect; Computational modeling; Decimal fractions; Number comparison; String length congruity effect

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIMAL FRACTION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NATURAL NUMBER; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84897401736     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00172     Document Type: Article

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