Number to me, space to you
- Recent work has shown that number concepts activate both spatial and magnitude representations. According to the social co-representation literature which has shown that participants typically represent task components assigned to others together with their own, we asked whether explicit magnitude meaning and explicit spatial coding must be present in a single mind, or can be distributed across two minds, to generate a spatial-numerical congruency effect. In a shared go/no-go task that eliminated peripheral spatial codes, we assigned explicit magnitude processing to participants and spatial processing to either human or non-human co-agents. The spatial-numerical congruency effect emerged only with human co-agents. We demonstrate an inter-personal level of conceptual congruency between space and number that arises from a shared conceptual representation not contaminated by peripheral spatial codes. Theoretical implications of this finding for numerical cognition are discussed.
Author details: | Stefania D'AscenzoORCiD, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND, Samuel ShakiORCiD, Luisa LugliORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-02013-9 |
ISSN: | 1069-9384 |
ISSN: | 1531-5320 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34816389 |
Title of parent work (English): | Psychonomic bulletin & review : a journal of the Psychonomic Society |
Subtitle (English): | joint representation of spatial-numerical associations |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publishing: | New York |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2021/11/23 |
Publication year: | 2022 |
Release date: | 2024/02/22 |
Tag: | Conceptual congruency effect; Numerical; SNARC effect; Social co-representation; cognition |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 7 |
First page: | 485 |
Last Page: | 491 |
Funding institution: | Alma Mater Studiorum Universita di Bologna within the CRUI-CARE Agreement |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |