Your neighbors define your value a study of spatial bias in number comparison
- 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.
| Author details: | Samuel ShakiORCiD, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.01.004 |
| ISSN: | 0001-6918 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Acta psychologica : international journal of psychonomics |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2013 |
| Publication year: | 2013 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Tag: | Magnitude comparison; Mental number line; Numerical cognition; Spatial bias |
| Volume: | 142 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Number of pages: | 6 |
| First page: | 308 |
| Last Page: | 313 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
