TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring spatial–numerical associations
T2 - evidence for a purely conceptual link
AU - Fischer, Martin H.
AU - Shaki, Samuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Previous work on spatial–numerical association (SNAs) included either spatially distributed stimuli or responses. This raises the possibility that the inferred spatial nature of number concepts was a methodological artifact. We present results from a novel task that involves two categories (spatially oriented objects and number magnitudes) and dissociates spatial classification from number classification. The results reveal SNAs without inferential limitations of previous work and point to a working memory mechanism that transfers spatial coding across categories.
AB - Previous work on spatial–numerical association (SNAs) included either spatially distributed stimuli or responses. This raises the possibility that the inferred spatial nature of number concepts was a methodological artifact. We present results from a novel task that involves two categories (spatially oriented objects and number magnitudes) and dissociates spatial classification from number classification. The results reveal SNAs without inferential limitations of previous work and point to a working memory mechanism that transfers spatial coding across categories.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84955208885&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00426-015-0646-0
DO - 10.1007/s00426-015-0646-0
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C2 - 25617061
AN - SCOPUS:84955208885
SN - 0340-0727
VL - 80
SP - 109
EP - 112
JO - Psychological Research
JF - Psychological Research
IS - 1
ER -