Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention
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- 18 May 2003
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Neuroscience
- Vol. 6 (6) , 555-556
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1066
Abstract
Number symbols are part of our everyday visual world. Here we show that merely looking at numbers causes a shift in covert attention to the left or right side, depending upon the number's magnitude. This observation implies obligatory activation of number meaning and signals a tight coupling of internal and external representations of space.Keywords
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