A working memory account of the interaction between numbers and spatial attention

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1500-1513

  van Dijck, Jean Philippe ^a,b   Abrahamse, Elger L ^a   Acar, Freya ^a   Ketels, Boris ^a   Fias, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Mental number line; Numbers and space; Spatial attention; Spatial numerical association of response codes; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904540769     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.903984     Document Type: Article

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