ArticleeLife2020
Numerical magnitude, rather than individual bias, explains spatial numerical association in newborn chicks.
Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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- Numerically induced attentional biases in horizontal, vertical, and two-dimensional shapes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Prenatal light exposure affects number sense and the mental number line in young domestic chicks.eLife · 2025Article
- Cognitive bridge between geometric and numerical learning in monkeys.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Crossing the Boundary: No Catastrophic Limits on Infants' Capacity to Represent Linguistic Sequences.Developmental science · 2025Article
- The role of cognitive control in the interaction of the SNARC and MARC effects.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Does the Brain Care Which Direction We Read? A Cross-Cultural tDCS Study on Functional Lateralization of Number Processing.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Dichotomous horizontal representation of acute deterioration risk on illnesses.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Magnitude shifts spatial attention from left to right in rhesus monkeys as in the human mental number line.iScience · 2024Article
- Reply to Pitt et al.: Evidence from bees is consistent with a biological origin of a left-to-right mental number line.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Mice make temporal inferences about novel locations based on previously learned spatiotemporal contingencies.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Asymmetric number-space association leads to more efficient processing of congruent information in domestic chicks.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- An insect brain organizes numbers on a left-to-right mental number line.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Spatial frequency equalization does not prevent spatial-numerical associations.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- Response of male and female domestic chicks to change in the number (quantity) of imprinting objects.Learning & behavior · 2021Article
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- Approach direction and accuracy, but not response times, show spatial-numerical association in chicks.PloS one · 2021Article
- Numerosities and Other Magnitudes in the Brains: A Comparative View.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
We associate small numbers with the left and large numbers with the right side of space. Recent evidence from human newborns and non-human animals has challenged the primary role assigned to culture, in determining this spatial numerical association (SNA). Nevertheless, the effect of individual spatial biases has not been considered in previous research. Here, we tested the effect of numerical magnitude in SNA and we controlled for itablendividual biases. We trained 3-day-old chicks (
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