Can approximate mental calculation account for operational momentum in addition and subtraction?

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1541-1556

  Knops, André ^a   Dehaene, Stanislas ^b,c,d,e   Berteletti, Ilaria ^f   Zorzi, Marco ^g,h  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e sous section pédiatrie   (France)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^h IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Approximate number system; Attention; Mental number line; Operational momentum; Weber fraction

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904536630     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.890234     Document Type: Article

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