The present study investigated the effect of the physical estimation environment and the size of the to-be-estimated (TBE) objects on the use of measurement units and length estimation performance. Following a between-subjects design, forty young adults were asked to estimate the length of nine pieces of ribbon presented in two different conditions: an External Measurement condition, wherein several external measurement units were present or a No External Measurement condition in [...]
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