Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32092079›Full record

ArticlePloS one2020

Automaticity in processing spatial-numerical associations: Evidence from a perceptual orientation judgment task of Arabic digits in frames.

Shuyuan Yu, Baichen Li, Meng Zhang, Tianwei Gong, Xiaomei Li, Zhaojun Li, Xuefei Gao, Shudong Zhang, Ting Jiang, Chuansheng Chen

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Shuyuan YuDepartment of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America.
Baichen LiDepartment of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Meng ZhangFalculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Tianwei GongFalculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Xiaomei LiDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America.
Zhaojun LiDepartment of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America.
Xuefei GaoSchool of Psychology & Counselling, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Shudong ZhangFaculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8571-8895
Ting JiangFalculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Chuansheng ChenDepartment of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human adults are faster to respond to small/large numerals with their left/right hand when they judge the parity of numerals, which is known as the SNARC (spatial-numerical association of response codes) effect. It has been proposed that the size of the SNARC effect depends on response latencies. The current study introduced a perceptual orientation task, where participants were asked to judge the orientation of a digit or a frame surrounding the digit. The present study first confirmed the SNARC effect with native Chinese speakers (Experiment 1) using a parity task, and then examined whether the emergence and size of the SNARC effect depended on the response latencies (Experiments 2, 3, and 4) using a perceptual orientation judgment task. Our results suggested that (a) the automatic processing of response-related numerical-spatial information occurred with Chinese-speaking participants in the parity task; (b) the SNARC effect was also found when the task did not require semantic access; and (c) the size of the effect depended on the processing speed of the task-relevant dimension. Finally, we proposed an underlying mechanism to explain the SNARC effect in the perceptual orientation judgment task.

Indexed as

FemaleHumansJudgmentMaleMathematicsReaction TimeSpace PerceptionSpatial ProcessingYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID32092079
PMCPMC7039522

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.