Numerical magnitude affects temporal memories but not time encoding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cai, Zhenguang G ^a   Wang, Ruiming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899904543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083159     Document Type: Article

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