TY - JOUR
T1 - Numbers and space
T2 - Associations and dissociations
AU - Nathan, Merav Ben
AU - Shaki, Samuel
AU - Salti, Moti
AU - Algom, Daniel
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - A cornerstone of contemporary research in numerical cognition is the surprising link found between numbers and space. In particular, people react faster and more accurately to small numbers with a left-hand key and to large numbers with a right-hand key. Because this contingency is found in a variety of tasks, it has been taken to support the automatic activation of magnitude as well as the notion of a mental number line arranged from left to right. The present study challenges the presence of a link between left-right location, on the one hand, and small-large number, on the other hand. We show that a link exists between space and relative magnitude, a relationship that might or might not be unique to numbers.
AB - A cornerstone of contemporary research in numerical cognition is the surprising link found between numbers and space. In particular, people react faster and more accurately to small numbers with a left-hand key and to large numbers with a right-hand key. Because this contingency is found in a variety of tasks, it has been taken to support the automatic activation of magnitude as well as the notion of a mental number line arranged from left to right. The present study challenges the presence of a link between left-right location, on the one hand, and small-large number, on the other hand. We show that a link exists between space and relative magnitude, a relationship that might or might not be unique to numbers.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67650553314&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3758/PBR.16.3.578
DO - 10.3758/PBR.16.3.578
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C2 - 19451388
AN - SCOPUS:67650553314
SN - 1069-9384
VL - 16
SP - 578
EP - 582
JO - Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
JF - Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
IS - 3
ER -