1 + 2 is more than 2 + 1: Violations of commutativity and identity axioms in mental arithmetic

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 471-477

  Shaki, Samuel ^a   Sery, Noa ^a   Fischer, Martin H ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mental number line; Operand order effect; Operational momentum; Situated cognition; SNARC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE BIAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; THINKING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; IDENTITY; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OBSERVATION;

EID: 84928938464     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2014.973414     Document Type: Article

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