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Mental Numerosity Line in the Human's Approximate Number System

Xinlin Zhou1,2, Chaoran Shen1,2, Leinian Li1,2

  • 11 State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, PR China.

Experimental Psychology
|July 13, 2016
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SNARC effectmathematical cognitionmental number linenumerical processingnumerosity

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