ArticlePsychological research2017
Impact of optokinetic stimulation on mental arithmetic.
Article in Psychological research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Spatial attention in mental arithmetic: A literature review and meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Pooled it
- Spatial coding of arithmetic operations in early learning: an eye tracking study in first-grade elementary school children.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Anchoring bias in mental arithmetic.Psychological research · 2024Article
- A functional role for oculomotor preparation in mental arithmetic evidenced by the abducted eye paradigm.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Does training mental rotation transfer to gains in mathematical competence? Assessment of an at-home visuospatial intervention.Psychological research · 2020Article
- Semantic associations between arithmetic and space: Evidence from temporal order judgements.Memory & cognition · 2020Article
- Spatial grounding of symbolic arithmetic: an investigation with optokinetic stimulation.Psychological research · 2019Article
- "Compacted" procedures for adults' simple addition: A review and critique of the evidence.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2018Review
- The Developmental Trajectory of the Operational Momentum Effect.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Solving arithmetic problems has been shown to induce shifts of spatial attention, subtraction problems orienting attention to the left side, and addition problems to the right side of space. At the neurofunctional level, the activations elicited by the solving of arithmetical problems resemble those elicited by horizontal eye movements. Whether overt orientation of attention (i.e., eye movements) can be linked to the solving procedure is, however, still under debate. In the present study, we used optokinetic stimulation (OKS) to trigger automatic eye movements to orient participants' overt attention to the right or to the left of their visual field while they were solving addition or subtraction problems. The results show that, in comparison to leftward OKS and a control condition, rightward OKS facilitates the solving of addition problems that necessitate a carrying procedure. Subtraction solving was unaffected by leftward or rightward OKS. These results converge with previous findings to show that attentional shifts are functionally related to mental arithmetic processing.
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