Spatial representations in number processing--evidence from a pointing task
- 1 May 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Visual Cognition
- Vol. 10 (4) , 493-508
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280244000186
Abstract
This study investigated cognitive interactions between visuo-motor processing and numerical cognition. In a pointing task healthy participants moved their hand to a left or right target, depending on the parity of small or large digits (1, 2, 8, or 9) shown at central fixation. Movement execution was faster when left-responses were made to small digits and right-responses to large digits. These results extend the SNARC effect (spatial-numerical association of response codes) to manual pointing and support the notion of a spatially oriented mental number line.Keywords
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