ArticleAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2020
A left visual advantage for quantity processing in neonates.
Article in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2020. 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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- Numbers Driving Space: Experience With Numerical Sequences Modulates Spatial Behavior in Newborn Chicks (Gallus gallus).Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Prenatal light exposure affects number sense and the mental number line in young domestic chicks.eLife · 2025Article
- Intersection of spatial and numerical cognition in the developing brain.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Magnitude shifts spatial attention from left to right in rhesus monkeys as in the human mental number line.iScience · 2024Article
- Genetic and environmental contributions to gaze lateralization across social and non-social stimuli in human infants.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- How do human newborns come to understand the multimodal environment?Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Review
- Asymmetric number-space association leads to more efficient processing of congruent information in domestic chicks.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Abstract representations of small sets in newborns.Cognition · 2022Article
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Abstract
Forty-eight newborn infants were tested in one of three multimodal stimulus conditions, in which auditory quantities were presented alongside visual object arrays in two test trials. These tests varied with respect to which side (either left or right) numerically matched the auditory number. The infants looked longer to the test trials in which the left side of the visual display exhibited a quantity that matched the presented auditory quantity. This study provides the first evidence for an untrained, innate bias for humans to preferentially process quantity information presented in the left field of vision.
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