ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2012
The comprehension of sentences involving quantity information affects responses on the up-down axis.
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- Mental Number Representations in 2D Space.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Placing Abstract Concepts in Space: Quantity, Time and Emotional Valence.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Enacted Reading Comprehension: Using Bodily Movement to Aid the Comprehension of Abstract Text Content.PloS one · 2017Article
- Up or down? Reading direction influences vertical counting direction in the horizontal plane - a cross-cultural comparison.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
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Abstract
We investigated the use of space in the comprehension of the concept of quantity in text. Previous work has suggested that the right-left axis is useful in spatial representations of number and quantity, while linguistic evidence points toward use of the up-down axis. In Experiment 1, participants read sentences containing quantity information and pressed buttons in either (1) an up and a down position or (2) a left and a right position. In Experiment 2, the participants pressed buttons in either (1) up and down positions or (2) left and right positions, but heard the sentences rather than reading them. We found spatial compatibility effects for the up-down axis, but not for the right-left axis. Additionally, the spatial compatibility effect was observed whether or not the participants moved to make their responses. We discussed the results in the context of embodied approaches to the comprehension of quantity information.
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