ArticlePloS one2018
Non-symbolic magnitudes are represented spatially: Evidence from a non-symbolic SNARC task.
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- Spatial-numerical associations survive spatial frequency equalization in an adult unimanual SNARC task.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Investigating the effects of magnitude-space based numerical working memory loads on the SNARC effect under different number judgment tasks.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Spatial associations for slow musical tempos are revealed by increased stimulus density.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Kicking the mental number line: a kinematic investigation of numerical processing in childhood.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- From shape to number: Shape-from-dots homogeneity boosts groupitizing enumeration.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- What makes different number-space mappings interact?Psychological research · 2024Article
- Analogue magnitude representation of angles and its relation to geometric expertise.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Temporal speed prevails on interval duration in the SNARC-like effect for tempo.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Contrasting symbolic and non-symbolic numerical representations in a joint classification task.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- Spatial frequency equalization does not prevent spatial-numerical associations.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- Perceiving numerosity does not cause automatic shifts of spatial attention.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- SNARC effect modulated by central executive control: revealed in a cue-based trisection task.Psychological research · 2021Article
- A gifted SNARC? Directional spatial-numerical associations in gifted children with high-level math skills do not differ from controls.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Can a Single Representational Object Account for Different Number-Space Mappings?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
A core proposition in numerical cognition is numbers are represented spatially. Evidence for this proposition comes from the "spatial numerical association of response codes" effect (SNARC) in which faster responses are made by the left/right hand judging whether one of a pair of Arabic digits is smaller/larger than the other. Less is known if a similar SNARC effect exists for non-symbolic magnitudes; and research that has been conducted used stimuli which could be translated into symbolic terms. To overcome this limitation, we employed a referent-to-target judgment paradigm in which a referent dot array (n = 30 dots) was follow by a second array of dots (e.g., n = 45 or 15 dots)-participants judged if the second array contained fewer or more dots than the referent array. Dot arrays with fewer dots were judged more quickly with the left hand compared to the right hand (i.e., a SNARC effect). Not all participants demonstrated a SNARC effect, however. Neither visuospatial working memory nor math ability was associated with the presence/absence of a non-symbolic SNARC effect. Implications of the non-symbolic SNARC effect for accounts of numerical cognition are discussed.
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