ArticleFrontiers in psychology2011
Numbers in Space: Differences between Concrete and Abstract Situations.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Placing Abstract Concepts in Space: Quantity, Time and Emotional Valence.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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- Number-induced shifts in spatial attention: a replication study.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
- Neural mechanisms of shifts of spatial attention induced by object words with spatial associations: an ERP study.Experimental brain research · 2013Article
- Counting is easier while experiencing a congruent motion.PloS one · 2013Article
- How Task Goals Mediate the Interplay between Perception and Action.Frontiers in psychology · 2013Article
- Old cortex, new contexts: re-purposing spatial perception for social cognition.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2013Article
- The comprehension of sentences involving quantity information affects responses on the up-down axis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2012Article
- High and Mighty: Implicit Associations between Space and Social Status.Frontiers in psychology · 2011Article
- Graspable objects shape number processing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2011Article
- Introduction to the special topic embodied and grounded cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2011Article
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Abstract
Numbers might be understood by grounding in spatial orientation, where small numbers are represented as low or to the left and large numbers are represented as high or to the right. We presented numbers in concrete (seven shoes in a shoe shop) or abstract (29 - 7) contexts and asked participants to make relative magnitude judgments. Following the judgment a target letter was presented at the top or bottom (Experiments 1-3) or left or right (Experiment 4) of the visual field. Participants were better at identifying letters at congruent than incongruent locations, but this effect was obtained only when numbers were presented in concrete contexts. We conclude that spatial grounding might have a smaller role for numbers in abstract than in concrete context.
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