TY  - JOUR
A1  - Shaki, Samuel
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Your neighbors define your value a study of spatial bias in number comparison
JF  - Acta psychologica : international journal of psychonomics
N2  - Several chronometric biases in numerical cognition have informed our understanding of a mental number line (MNL). Complementing this approach, we investigated spatial performance in a magnitude comparison task. Participants located the larger or smaller number of a pair on a horizontal line representing the interval from 0 to 10. Experiments 1 and 2 used only number pairs one unit apart and found that digits were localized farther to the right with "select larger" instructions than with "select smaller" instructions. However, when numerical distance was varied (Experiment 3), digits were localized away from numerically near neighbors. This repulsion effect reveals context-specific distortions in number representation not previously noticed with chronometric measures.
KW  - Magnitude comparison
KW  - Mental number line
KW  - Numerical cognition
KW  - Spatial bias
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.01.004
SN  - 0001-6918
VL  - 142
IS  - 3
SP  - 308
EP  - 313
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -