How to cook a SNARC? Space may be the critical ingredient, after all: A comment on Fischer, Mills, and Shaki (2010)

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 310-315

  Treccani, Barbara ^a   Umiltà, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Logical recoding; Number line; Numerical cognition; S R compatibility effects; SNARC effect; Spatial numerical associations

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL NUMERICAL ASSOCIATION OF RESPONSE CODES; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952040079     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.11.006     Document Type: Note

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