ArticleCognitive processing2015
Which numbers do you have in mind? Number generation is influenced by reading direction.
Article in Cognitive processing, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Probing the Dual-Route Model of the SNARC Effect by Orthogonalizing Processing Speed and Depth.Experimental psychology · 2023Article
- A gifted SNARC? Directional spatial-numerical associations in gifted children with high-level math skills do not differ from controls.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Neuromuscular Diseases Affect Number Representation and Processing: An Exploratory Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Commentary: A mental number line in human newborns.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Number concepts: abstract and embodied.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Cognition, emotion, and arithmetic in primary school: A cross-cultural investigation.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2018Article
- Observation of directional storybook reading influences young children's counting direction.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2018Article
- Developmental Changes in the Effect of Active Left and Right Head Rotation on Random Number Generation.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Number-space associations without language: Evidence from preverbal human infants and non-human animal species.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2017Review
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Abstract
In Western participants, small numbers are associated with left and larger numbers with right space. A biological account proposes that brain asymmetries lead to these attentional asymmetries in number space. In contrast, a cultural account proposes that the direction of this association is shaped by reading direction. We explored whether number generation is influenced by reading direction in participants from a left-to-right (UK) and a right-to-left (Arab) reading culture. Participants generated numbers randomly while lying on their left and right side. The mean number generated by participants from a left-to-right reading culture was smaller when they lay on their left than on their right side, and the opposite was found for participants from a right-to-left reading culture. Asymmetries in number space observed in number generation are more compatible with a cultural than biological account.
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