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Download full textAshcraft, Mark H. – 1983
This report describes a simulation of adults' retrieval of arithmetic facts from a network-based memory representation. The goals of the simulation project are to: demonstrate in specific form the nature of a spreading activation model of mental arithmetic; account for three important reaction time effects observed in laboratory investigations;…
Descriptors: Addition, Adult Learning, Arithmetic, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedJensen, Arthur R.; Whang, Patricia A. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1994
Results of a comparison of 73 Anglo American and 155 Chinese American (CA) fourth through sixth graders on an intelligence test and measures of the speed and consistency of retrieval of arithmetic facts from long-term memory are consistent with the hypothesis that accessing elementary arithmetic knowledge is more completely automatized in CA…
Descriptors: Addition, Anglo Americans, Arithmetic, Chinese Americans
