TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pinhas, Michal
A1  - Shaki, Samuel
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Addition goes where the big numbers are: evidence for a reversed operational momentum effect
JF  - Psychonomic bulletin & review : a journal of the Psychonomic Society
N2  - Number processing evokes spatial biases, both when dealing with single digits and in more complex mental calculations. Here we investigated whether these two biases have a common origin, by examining their flexibility. Participants pointed to the locations of arithmetic results on a visually presented line with an inverted, right-to-left number arrangement. We found directionally opposite spatial biases for mental arithmetic and for a parity task administered both before and after the arithmetic task. We discuss implications of this dissociation in our results for the task-dependent cognitive representation of numbers.
KW  - Mental arithmetic
KW  - Mental number line
KW  - Operational momentum
KW  - Pointing
KW  - SNARC
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0786-z
SN  - 1069-9384
SN  - 1531-5320
VL  - 22
IS  - 4
SP  - 993
EP  - 1000
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -