Mental number space in three dimensions
- A large number of experimental findings from neuroscience and experimental psychology demonstrated interactions between spatial cognition and numerical cognition. In particular, many researchers posited a horizontal mental number line, where small numbers are thought of as being to the left of larger numbers. This review synthesizes work on the mental association between space and number, indicating the existence of multiple spatial mappings: recent research has found associations between number and vertical space, as well as associations between number and near/far space. We discuss number space in three dimensions with an eye on potential origins of the different number mappings, and how these number mappings fit in with our current knowledge of brain organization and brain-culture interactions. We derive novel predictions and show how this research fits into a general view of cognition as embodied, grounded and situated. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author details: | Bodo Winter, Teenie Matlock, Samuel ShakiORCiD, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.09.005 |
ISSN: | 0149-7634 |
ISSN: | 1873-7528 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26365108 |
Title of parent work (English): | Neuroscience & biobehavioral reviews : official journal of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publishing: | Oxford |
Publication type: | Review |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Tag: | Embodiment; Intra-parietal sulcus; Mental number line; Metaphor; Neglect; SNARC; Spatial cognition |
Volume: | 57 |
Number of pages: | 11 |
First page: | 209 |
Last Page: | 219 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |