When combined spatial polarities activated through spatio-temporal asynchrony lead to better mathematical reasoning for addition.
Several recent studies have supported the existence of a link between spatial processing and some aspects of mathematical reasoning, including mental arithmetic. Some of these studies suggested that people are more accurate when performing arithmetic operations for which the operands appeared in the...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 46; no. 7; pp. 1194 - 1210 |
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