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Direct linkPollack, Courtney; Leon Guerrero, Sibylla; Star, Jon R. – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
Higher-level mathematics requires a connection between literal symbols (e.g., "x") and their mental representations. The current study probes the nature of mental representations for literal symbols using both the priming distance effect, in which ease of comparing a target number to a fixed standard is a function of prime-target…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Mathematics, Priming, Symbols (Mathematics)
