Comparative Judgment of Numerosity and Numerical Magnitude: Attention Preempts Automaticity

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 259-274

  Pansky, Ainat ^a,c   Algom, Daniel ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; RANDOMIZATION; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 85047674506     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.28.2.259     Document Type: Article

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