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SUBMITTER: Han CC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4735758 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Han Cheng-Ching CC Yang Tsung-Han TH Lin Chia-Yuan CY Yen Nai-Shing NS
Frontiers in psychology 20160202
Is domain-general memory updating ability predictive of calculation skills or are such skills better predicted by the capacity for updating specifically numerical information? Here, we used multidigit mental multiplication (MMM) as a measure for calculating skill as this operation requires the accurate maintenance and updating of information in addition to skills needed for arithmetic more generally. In Experiment 1, we found that only individual differences with regard to a task updating numeri ...[more]