Placing order in space: The SNARC effect in serial learning

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 599-605

  Previtali, Paola ^a   De Hevia, Maria Dolores ^b   Girelli, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ordered information; SNARC effect; Spatial representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; COGNITION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYMBOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951092097     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-2063-3     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Atkinson RC, Shiffrin RM (1968) The psychology of learning and motivation. In: Spence KW (ed) Advances in research and theory. Academic, New York, pp 89-195
2. MF Damian 2004 Asymmetries in the processing of Arabic digits and number words Mem Cogn 32 164 171
3. S Dehaene S Bossini P Giraux 1993 The mental representation of parity and number magnitude J Exp Psychol Gen 122 371 396 10.1037/0096-3445.122.3.371
4. S Dehaene M Piazza P Pinel L Cohen 2003 Three parietal circuits of number processing Cogn Neuropsychol 20 487 506 10.1080/02643290244000239 (Pubitemid 36889818)
5. MD Dodd S Van der Stigchel MA Leghari G Fung A Kingstone 2008 Attentional SNARC: there's something special about numbers (let us count the ways) Cognition 108 810 818 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.04.006 18538756
6. W Fias M Brysbaert F Geypens G d'Ydewalle 1996 The importance of magnitude information in numerical processing: evidence from the SNARC effect Math Cogn 2 95 110 10.1080/135467996387552
7. W Fias B Reynvoet M Brysbaert 2001 Are Arabic numerals processed as picture in a Stroop interference task? Psychol Res 65 242 249 10.1007/s004260100064 1:STN:280:DC%2BD38%2Fmtlyruw%3D%3D 11789428 (Pubitemid 33595064)
8. W Fias J Lammertyn B Caessens GA Orban 2007 Processing of abstract ordinal knowledge in the horizontal segment of the intraparietal sulcus J Neurosci 27 8952 8956 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2076-07.2007 1:CAS:528: DC%2BD2sXhtVegt7fM 17699676 (Pubitemid 47292751)
9. MH Fischer 2006 The future for SNARC could be stark Cortex 42 1066 1068 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70218-1 17209412
10. MH Fischer AD Castel MD Dodd J Pratt 2003 Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention Nat Neurosci 6 555 556 10.1038/nn1066 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD3sXjvF2kur4%3D 12754517 (Pubitemid 36648794)
11. MS Franklin J Jonides EE Smith 2009 Processing of order information for numbers and months Mem Cogn 37 5 644 654 10.3758/MC.37.5.644
12. W Gevers B Reynvoet W Fias 2003 The mental representation of ordinal sequences is spatially organized Cognition 87 B87 B95 10.1016/S0010-0277(02) 00234-2 12684205 (Pubitemid 36390326)
13. W Gevers B Reynvoet W Fias 2004 The mental representation of ordinal sequences is spatially organized. Evidence from days of the week Cortex 40 171 172 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70938-9 15174454
14. W Gevers T Verguts B Reynvoet B Caessens W Fias 2006 Numbers and space: a computational model of the SNARC effect J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 32 32 44 10.1037/0096-1523.32.1.32 16478324 (Pubitemid 43283722)
15. WR Glaser 1992 Picture naming Cognition 42 61 105 10.1016/0010-0277(92) 90040-O 1:STN:280:DyaK383lsl2hsA%3D%3D 1582161
16. M Ishihara PE Keller Y Rossetti W Prinz 2008 Horizontal spatial representations of time: evidence for the STEARC effect Cortex 44 454 461 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.08.010 18387578 (Pubitemid 351735060)
17. SM Kosslyn O Koenig A Barrett CB Cave 1989 Evidence for two types of spatial representations: hemispheric specialization for categorical and coordinate relations J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 15 4 723 735 10.1037/0096-1523.15.4.723 1:STN:280:DyaK3c%2FmtlCqtg%3D%3D 2531207
18. RF Lorch Jr JL Myers 1990 Regression analyses of repeated measures data in cognition research J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 16 149 157 10.1037/0278-7393.16.1.149 2136750
19. L Lotto R Dell'Acqua R Job 2001 Le figure PD/DPSS. Norme di accordo sul nome, tipicità, familiarità, età di acquisizione e tempi di denominazione per 266 figure G Ital Psicol 28 193 207
20. C Marshuetz EE Smith J Jonides J DeGutis TL Chenevert 2000 Order information in working memory: fMRI evidence for parietal and prefrontal mechanisms J Cogn Neurosci 12 Suppl 2 130 144 10.1162/08989290051137459 11506653
21. RS Moyer TK Landauer 1967 Time required for judgements of numerical inequality Nature 215 1519 1520 10.1038/2151519a0 1:STN:280: DyaF1c%2FhtFSrug%3D%3D 6052760
22. D Müller W Schwarz 2007 Is there an internal association of numbers to hands? The task set influences the nature of the SNARC effect Mem Cogn 35 5 1151 1161
23. Nuerk HC, Iversen W, Willmes K (2004) Notational modulation of the SNARC and the MARC (linguistic markedness of response codes) effect. Q J Exp Psychol 57A(5):835-863
24. RW Proctor YS Cho 2006 Polarity correspondence: a general principle for performance of speeded binary classification tasks Psychol Bull 132 416 442 10.1037/0033-2909.132.3.416 16719568 (Pubitemid 43848890)
25. F Restle 1970 Speed of adding and comparing numbers J Exp Psychol 95 437 444
26. E Rusconi B Kwan BL Giordano C Umiltà B Butterworth 2006 Spatial representation of pitch height: the SMARC effect Cognition 99 113 129 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.01.004 15925355
27. S Shaki MH Fischer 2008 Reading space into numbers-a cross-linguistic comparison of the SNARC effect Cognition 108 590 599 10.1016/j.cognition.2008. 04.001 18514179
28. S Shaki MH Fischer WM Petrusic 2009 Reading habits for both words and numbers contribute to the SNARC effect Psychon Bull Rev 16 2 328 331 10.3758/PBR.16.2.328 19293102
29. E Turconi B Jemel B Rossion X Seron 2004 Electrophysiological evidence for differential processing of numerical quantity and order in humans Cogn Brain Res 21 22 38 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.05.003 (Pubitemid 39119609)
30. F Van Opstal W Fias P Peigneux T Verguts 2009 The neural representation of extensively trained ordered sequences Neuroimage 47 367 375 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.04.035 19376245
31. S Zebian 2005 Linkages between number concepts, spatial thinking, and directionality of writing: the SNARC effect and the reverse SNARC effect in English and Arabic monoliterates, biliterates, and illiterate Arabic speakers J Cogn Cult 5 165 190 10.1163/1568537054068660
32. M Zorzi K Priftis F Meneghello R Marenzi C Umiltà 2006 The spatial representation of numerical and non-numerical sequences: evidence from neglect Neuropsychologia 44 1061 1067 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.10.025 16356515