ArticleScientific reports2017
The Time Course of Spatial Attention Shifts in Elementary Arithmetic.
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- Spatial attention in mental arithmetic: A literature review and meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Pooled it
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- A functional role for oculomotor preparation in mental arithmetic evidenced by the abducted eye paradigm.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
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- Reading direction and spatial effects in parity and arithmetic tasks.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Perceived Motion and Operational Momentum: How Speed, Distance, and Time Influence Two-Digit Arithmetic.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Assessing orienting of attention to understand the time course of mental calculation.Cognitive processing · 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
- Number concepts: abstract and embodied.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Addition and Subtraction but Not Multiplication and Division Cause Shifts of Spatial Attention.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Commentary : The Developmental Trajectory of the Operational Momentum Effect.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Reassessing lateralization in calculation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Dissociated Spatial-Arithmetic Associations in Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
It has been proposed that elementary arithmetic induces spatial shifts of attention. However, the timing of this arithmetic-space association remains unknown. Here we investigate this issue with a target detection paradigm. Detecting targets in the right visual field was faster than in the left visual field when preceded by an addition operation, while detecting targets in the left visual field was faster than in the right visual field when preceded by a subtraction operation. The arithmetic-space association was found both at the end of the arithmetic operation and during calculation. In contrast, the processing of operators themselves did not induce spatial biases. Our results suggest that the arithmetic-space association resides in the mental arithmetic operation rather than in the individual numbers or the operators. Moreover, the temporal course of this effect was different in addition and subtraction.
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