The numerical distance effect is task dependent.
Number comparison tasks produce a distance effect e.g., Moyer & Landauer (Nature 215: 1519-1520, ). It has been suggested that this effect supports the existence of semantic mental representations of numbers. In a matching task, a distance effect also appears, which suggests that the effect has an a...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 39; no. 8; pp. 1508 - 1518 |
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