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  • Title: Mental multiplication: nothing but the facts?
    Author: Manly CF, Spoehr KT.
    Journal: Mem Cognit; 1999 Nov; 27(6):1087-96. PubMed ID: 10586584.
    Abstract:
    Current models of adult arithmetic performance assume that representation includes only facts and procedures. However, other kinds of representations such as an analog scale or sets of number multiples might be useful in a variety of multiplication-related tasks. Introducing the practice transfer paradigm, we demonstrate that associations between distinct representational structures can be detected via cross-task transfer, provided that initial performance is retrieval based. Results support the predictions of the integrated-structures model of multiplication knowledge. Implications for well-established item differences such as the problem-size effect are addressed, and the question of how integration occurs is considered.
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