Doing arithmetic by hand: Hand movements during exact arithmetic reveal systematic, dynamic spatial processing

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1579-1596

  Marghetis, Tyler ^a   Núñez, Rafael ^a   Bergen, Benjamin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Grounded cognition; Mental arithmetic; Neural recycling; Operational momentum; Spatial numerical association of response codes; Spatial operation association of responses

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL BIAS; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOVEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL PROCESSING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904566092     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.897359     Document Type: Article

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