A representational analysis of numeration systems

This article explores the representational structures of numeration systems and the cognitive factors of the representational effect in numerical tasks, focusing on external representations and their interactions with internal representations. Numeration systems are analyzed at four levels: dimensio...

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Published in:Cognition 1995-12, Vol.57 (3), p.271-295
Main Authors: Zhang, Jiajie, Norman, Donald A.
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