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Verifying simple arithmetic sums and products: are the phonological loop and the central executive involved?
S De Rammelaere1, E Stuyven, A Vandierendonck
1Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium. stijn.deremmelaere@rug.ac.be
Abstract:
In two experiments, we investigated the role of the phonological loop and the central executive in the verification of the complete set of one-digit addition (Experiment 1) and multiplication (Experiment 2) problems. The focus of the present study was on the contradictory results concerning the contribution of the phonological loop in the verification of true problems (e.g., 8 + 4 = 12 or 4 x 6 = 24) reported until now. The results revealed that this slave system is not involved in verifying simple arithmetic problems, in contrast to the central executive. Furthermore, our results indicated that the split effect is due to the use of two different arithmetic strategies.
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