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  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pinhas, Michal
A1  - Shaki, Samuel
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
T1  - Heed the signs: Operation signs have spatial associations
JF  - The quarterly journal of experimental psychology
N2  - Mental arithmetic shows systematic spatial biases. The association between numbers and space is well documented, but it is unknown whether arithmetic operation signs also have spatial associations and whether or not they contribute to spatial biases found in arithmetic. Adult participants classified plus and minus signs with left and right button presses under two counterbalanced response rules. Results from two experiments showed that spatially congruent responses (i.e., right-side responses for the plus sign and left-side responses for the minus sign) were responded to faster than spatially incongruent ones (i.e., left-side responses for the plus sign and right-side responses for the minus sign). We also report correlations between this novel operation sign spatial association (OSSA) effect and other spatial biases in number processing. In a control experiment with no explicit processing requirements for the operation signs there were no sign-related spatial biases. Overall, the results suggest that (a) arithmetic operation signs can evoke spatial associations (OSSA), (b) experience with arithmetic operations probably underlies the OSSA, and (c) the OSSA only partially contributes to spatial biases in arithmetic.
KW  - Mental arithmetic
KW  - Mental number line
KW  - Operational momentum
KW  - Pointing
KW  - Spatial-numerical association of response codes effect
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.892516
SN  - 1747-0218
SN  - 1747-0226
VL  - 67
IS  - 8
SP  - 1527
EP  - 1540
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -