Addition goes where the big numbers are: evidence for a reversed operational momentum effect
- 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.
Author details: | Michal Pinhas, Samuel ShakiORCiD, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0786-z |
ISSN: | 1069-9384 |
ISSN: | 1531-5320 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25504457 |
Title of parent work (English): | Psychonomic bulletin & review : a journal of the Psychonomic Society |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publishing: | New York |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Tag: | Mental arithmetic; Mental number line; Operational momentum; Pointing; SNARC |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 4 |
Number of pages: | 8 |
First page: | 993 |
Last Page: | 1000 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |