ArticleCognitive processing2012
Influence of numerical magnitudes on the free choice of an object position.
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- The link between number and action in human infants.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Influences of hand action on the processing of symbolic numbers: A special role of pointing?PloS one · 2022Article
- From Affordances to Abstract Words: The Flexibility of Sensorimotor Grounding.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Approach direction and accuracy, but not response times, show spatial-numerical association in chicks.PloS one · 2021Article
- Numerical magnitude affects online execution, and not planning of visuomotor control.Psychological research · 2018Article
- Creating semantics in tool use.Cognitive processing · 2017Article
- Act on Numbers: Numerical Magnitude Influences Selection and Kinematics of Finger Movement.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Commentary: From 'sense of number' to 'sense of magnitude' - The role of continuous magnitudes in numerical cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Cross-Representational Interactions: Interface and Overlap Mechanisms.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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Abstract
The link between numerical magnitude and mechanisms of spatial orienting has been underlined in an increasing number of studies. Similarly, the relationship between numerical magnitude and grasping actions has started to be investigated. The present study focuses on the influence of numerical magnitude processing in the free choice of the position of an object. Participants were presented with a digit (1-9 without 5) and were required to decide whether it was smaller or larger than 5. Then, they had to grasp a small cube and change its position before vocally responding "higher" or "lower". Results showed that in the initial phase of the grasp movement, the grip aperture was modulated by the numerical magnitude. Moreover, participants shifted the position of the cube more leftward with smaller digits compared with larger ones, and they tended to position the object closer to themselves with smaller digits compared with larger ones. These results extend the previous findings indicating that the processing of magnitude is tightly related to the mechanisms of spatial orienting that subserve action execution.
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