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The effect of mathematics anxiety on the processing of numerical magnitude

Erin A Maloney1, Daniel Ansari, Jonathan A Fugelsang

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. eamalone@uwaterloo.ca

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
|November 30, 2010
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