Deconstructing spatial-numerical associations
- 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.
| Author details: | Samuel ShakiORCiD, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.02.022 |
| ISSN: | 0010-0277 |
| ISSN: | 1873-7838 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29500963 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Cognition : international journal of cognitive science |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2018/03/16 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Release date: | 2021/11/22 |
| Tag: | Go/no-go task; Implicit association task; Numerical cognition; SNARC effect |
| Volume: | 175 |
| Number of pages: | 5 |
| First page: | 109 |
| Last Page: | 113 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
