TY  - JOUR
A1  - Shaki, Samuel
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Deconstructing spatial-numerical associations
JF  - Cognition : international journal of cognitive science
N2  - Spatial-numerical associations (SNAs) have been studied extensively in the past two decades, always requiring either explicit magnitude processing or explicit spatial-directional processing. This means that the typical finding of an association of small numbers with left or bottom space and of larger numbers with right or top space could be due to these requirements and not the conceptual representation of numbers. The present study compares explicit and implicit magnitude processing in an implicit spatial-directional task and identifies SNAs as artefacts of either explicit magnitude processing or explicit spatial-directional processing; they do not reveal spatial conceptual links. This finding requires revision of current accounts of the relationship between numbers and space.
KW  - Go/no-go task
KW  - Implicit association task
KW  - Numerical cognition
KW  - SNARC effect
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.02.022
SN  - 0010-0277
SN  - 1873-7838
VL  - 175
SP  - 109
EP  - 113
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -