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Grabner, Roland H.; Brunner, Clemens; Lorenz, Valerie; Vogel, Stephan E.; De Smedt, Bert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
There is broad consensus on the assumption that adults solve single-digit multiplication problems almost exclusively by fact retrieval from memory. In contrast, there has been a long-standing debate on the cognitive processes involved in solving single-digit addition problems. This debate has evolved around two theoretical accounts. Proponents of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Addition, Computation, Arithmetic
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Chen, Yalin; Campbell, Jamie I. D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
There is a renewed debate about whether educated adults solve simple addition problems (e.g., 2 + 3) by direct fact retrieval or by fast, automatic counting-based procedures. Recent research testing adults' simple addition and multiplication showed that a 150-ms preview of the operator (+ or ×) facilitated addition, but not multiplication,…
Descriptors: Adults, Priming, Arithmetic, Addition