Is Integer Arithmetic Fundamental to Mental Processing?:  The Minds Secret Arithmetic

Snyder, Allan; Mitchell, D John

Is Integer Arithmetic Fundamental to Mental Processing?: The Minds Secret Arithmetic

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1999

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Snyder, Allan

Mitchell, D John

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Royal Society of London

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Unlike the ability to acquire our native language, we struggle to learn multiplication and division. It may then come as a surprise that the mental machinery for performing lightning-fast integer arithmetic calculations could be within us all even though

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Keywords: arithmetic; article; autism; calculation; cognition; human; hypothesis; language; learning; mental capacity; mental function; priority journal; Art; Autistic Disorder; Child; Child, Preschool; Humans; Learning; Mathematics; Mental Processes; Models, Psych Autistic savants; Cognition; Mental arithmetic; Mind; Savants; Unconscious arithmetic

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/93482

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences

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