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Direct linkCampbell, Jamie I. D.; Beech, Leah C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Several types of converging evidence have suggested recently that skilled adults solve very simple addition problems (e.g., 2 + 1, 4 + 2) using a fast, unconscious counting algorithm. These results stand in opposition to the long-held assumption in the cognitive arithmetic literature that such simple addition problems normally are solved by fact…
Descriptors: Adults, Addition, Mathematics, Generalization
