ArticleActa psychologica2016
Culturally inconsistent spatial structure reduces learning.
Article in Acta psychologica, 2016. 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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- Ordinality and Verbal Framing Influence Preschoolers' Memory for Spatial Structure.Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society · 2023Article
- Abstract concepts: external influences, internal constraints, and methodological issues.Psychological research · 2022Review
- Cross-cultural differences in visuo-spatial processing and the culture-fairness of visuo-spatial intelligence tests: an integrative review and a model for matrices tasks.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Review
- Spatial metaphors and the design of everyday things.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Measuring Spontaneous Focus on Space in Preschool Children.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- The Early Construction of Spatial Attention: Culture, Space, and Gesture in Parent-Child Interactions.Child development · 2018Article
- On the genesis of spatial-numerical associations: Evolutionary and cultural factors co-construct the mental number line.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2018Review
- Spatial-Numerical Associations Enhance the Short-Term Memorization of Digit Locations.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- From Innate Spatial Biases to Enculturated Spatial Cognition: The Case of Spatial Associations in Number and Other Sequences.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Infants learn better from left to right: a directional bias in infants' sequence learning.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Human adults tend to use a spatial continuum to organize any information they consider to be well-ordered, with a sense of initial and final position. The directionality of this spatial mapping is mediated by the culture of the subject, largely as a function of the prevailing reading and writing habits (for example, from left-to-right for English speakers or right-to-left for Hebrew speakers). In the current study, we tasked American and Israeli subjects with encoding and recalling a set of arbitrary pairings, consisting of frequently ordered stimuli (letters with shapes: Experiment 1) or infrequently ordered stimuli (color terms with shapes: Experiment 2), that were serially presented in a left-to-right, right-to-left, or central-only manner. The subjects were better at recalling information that contained ordinal stimuli if the spatial flow of presentation during encoding matched the dominant directionality of the subjects' culture, compared to information encoded in the non-dominant direction. This phenomenon did not extend to infrequently ordered stimuli (e.g., color terms). These findings suggest that adults implicitly harness spatial organization to support memory, and this harnessing process is culturally mediated in tandem with our spatial biases.
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