The impact of verbal working memory on number-space associations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 976-986

  Ginsburg, Véronique ^a   Van Dijck, Jean Philippe ^b,c   Previtali, Paola ^d   Fias, Wim ^b   Gevers, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Numbers; Ordinal coding; SNARC effect; Space; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902970091     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036378     Document Type: Article

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