A Role for Attentional Reorienting During Approximate Multiplication and Division

A Role for Attentional Reorienting During Approximate Multiplication and Division

When asked to estimate the outcome of arithmetic problems, participants overestimate for addition problems and underestimate for subtraction problems, both in symbolic and non-symbolic format. This bias is referred to as operational momentum effect (OM). The attentional shifts account holds that dur...

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Main Authors: Curren Katz, Hannes Hoesterey, André Knops
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen 2017-12-01
Series:Journal of Numerical Cognition
Subjects:
operational momentum
approximate calculation
spatial attention
mental number line
reorienting
mental arithmetic
Online Access:http://jnc.psychopen.eu/article/view/62

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http://jnc.psychopen.eu/article/view/62

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