ArticleScientific reports2018
Sequential Effects in SNARC.
Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Shared cognitive biases influence numerical judgments in macaques and crows.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- A SNARC-like effect for visual speed.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- One and only SNARC? Spatial-Numerical Associations are not fully flexible and depend on both relative and absolute number magnitude.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Probing the Dual-Route Model of the SNARC Effect by Orthogonalizing Processing Speed and Depth.Experimental psychology · 2023Article
- SNARC effect modulated by central executive control: revealed in a cue-based trisection task.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Running Online Behavioral Experiments Using R: Implementation of a Response-Time Decision Making Task as an R-Shiny App.Journal of cognition · 2021Article
- Conducting Web-Based Experiments for Numerical Cognition Research.Journal of cognition · 2019Article
- Mental Number Representations in 2D Space.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Small and large numbers are typically associated with the left and right side of space, respectively. We conducted an online version of the classical Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) paradigm in 604 subjects in order to analyse how previous trials and responses affect SNARC. Our results point to a strong inversion of number-space associations (left/large and right/small) when the last trial was incoherent - i.e. when a response with the left hand was made to a large number or vice-versa. In addition, we demonstrate that the congruency of trials beyond just the last two can influence SNARC, providing empirical support for an important assumption of a working memory account of spatial-numerical associations. Finally, we show that sequential effects in SNARC can be captured by a simple exponential filter, known to underpin sequential effects across a range of stimuli detection and perceptual two-alternative forced choice decision tasks. Our findings point to universal mechanisms responsible for the processing of sequences from perception to cognition.
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