Interference in arithmetic facts: Are active suppression processes involved when performing simple mental arithmetic?
(2004) Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive — Vol. 22, n° 6, p. 635-671 (2004)
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- We report an experiment aimed at determining whether active suppression processes or passive activation-based interference are related to performance in the production of simple mental arithmetic. Fifty-nine undergraduate students performed simple additions and multiplications, as well as three tasks assessing suppression of distractor interference, suppression of irrelevant information from memory, and sensitivity to activation-based interference. We found a significant relationship between accuracy in the arithmetic tasks and the latter: Participants who were less accurate when solving simple arithmetic problems showed a greater sensitivity to activation-based interference than participants who were more accurate. These findings suggest that solving simple arithmetic problems involves passive activation-based interference rather than active suppression processes and are discussed in the light of theoretical models of arithmetic facts.
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Censabella, S., & Noël, M.-P. (2004). Interference in arithmetic facts: Are active suppression processes involved when performing simple mental arithmetic? Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive, 22(6), 635-671. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/26711 (Original work published 2004)