Multiple Spatial Mappings in Numerical Cognition
Multiple Spatial Mappings in Numerical Cognition
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DOI:
10.1037/a0027562
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发表时间:
2012-06-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Fischer, Martin H.
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作者:
Shaki, Samuel;Fischer, Martin H.
A recent cross-cultural comparison (Shaki, Fischer, & Petrusic, 2009) suggested that spatially consistent processing habits for words and numbers are a necessary condition for the spatial representation of numbers (Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes; SNARC effect). Here we reexamine the SNARC in Israelis who read text from right to left but numbers from left to right. We show that, despite these spatially inconsistent processing habits, a SNARC effect still emerges when the response dimension is spatially orthogonal to the conflicting processing dimension. These results clarify the cognitive conditions for spatial-numerical mappings.