ArticlePsychological research2016
Dynamic mental number line in simple arithmetic.
Article in Psychological research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The Time Course of Spatial Attention Shifts in Elementary Arithmetic.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Reassessing lateralization in calculation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Exploring the numerical mind by eye-tracking: a special issue.Psychological research · 2016Article
- Counting is a spatial process: evidence from eye movements.Psychological research · 2016Article
- Voluntary eye movements direct attention on the mental number space.Psychological research · 2016Article
- Ocular drift along the mental number line.Psychological research · 2016Article
- Insights into numerical cognition: considering eye-fixations in number processing and arithmetic.Psychological research · 2016Review
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Abstract
Studies have found that spatial-numerical associations could extend to arithmetic. Addition leads to rightward shift in spatial attention while subtraction leads to leftward shift (e.g., Knops et al. 2009; McCrink et al. 2007; Pinhas & Fischer 2008), which is consistent with the hypothesis of static mental number line (MNL) for arithmetic. The current investigation tested the hypothesis of dynamic mental number line which was shaped by the relative magnitudes of two operands in simple arithmetic. Horizontal and vertical electrooculograms (HEOG and VEOG) during simple arithmetic were recorded. Results showed that the direction of eye movements was dependent on the relative magnitudes of two operands. Subtraction was associated with larger rightward eye movements than addition (Experiment 1), and smaller-operand-first addition (e.g., 2+9) was associated with larger rightward eye movement than larger-operand-first addition (e.g., 9+2) only when the difference of two operands was large (Experiment 2). The results suggest that the direction of the mental number line could be dynamic during simple arithmetic, and that the eyes move along the dynamic mental number line to search for solutions.
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