Spatial interferences in mental arithmetic: Evidence from the motion-arithmetic compatibility effect

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1557-1570

  Wiemers, Michael ^a   Bekkering, Harold ^a   Lindemann, Oliver ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Mental arithmetic; Numerical cognition; Spatial numerical associations

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904555818     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.889180     Document Type: Article

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