Finger Tracking Reveals the Covert Stages of Mental Arithmetic

We introduce a novel method capable of dissecting the succession of processing stages underlying mental arithmetic, thus revealing how two numbers are transformed into a third. We asked adults to point to the result of single-digit additions and subtractions on...

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Main Authors: Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, Dror Dotan, Manuela Piazza, Stanislas Dehaene
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2017-02-01
Series:Open Mind
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Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/OPMI_a_00003