Multiple spatial mappings in numerical cognition.

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2012 Germany English Publisher:American Psychological Association (APA)Journal:Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, volume 38, pages 804-809 (issn: 0096-1523, eissn: 1939-1277,

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Authors: Shaki, Samuel; Fischer, Martin H. (Prof. Dr.);

doi: 10.1037/a0027562

pmid: 22428673

Multiple spatial mappings in numerical cognition.

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Abstract

A recent cross-cultural comparison (Shaki, Fischer, & Petrusic, 2009) suggested that spatially consistent processing habits for words and numbers are a necessary condition for the spatial representation of numbers (Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes; SNARC effect). Here we reexamine the SNARC in Israelis who read text from right to left but numbers from left to right. We show that, despite these spatially inconsistent processing habits, a SNARC effect still emerges when the response dimension is spatially orthogonal to the conflicting processing dimension. These results clarify the cognitive conditions for spatial-numerical mappings.

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Germany

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Ariel University
Israel
University of Potsdam
Germany

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Department Psychologie, Adult, Male, Functional Laterality, Young Adult, Cognition, Space Perception, Reaction Time, Humans, Female, Mathematics, Photic Stimulation

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