SNARC effects with numerical and non-numerical symbolic comparative judgments: Instructional and cultural dependencies

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 515-530

  Shaki, Samuel ^a   Petrusic, William M ^b   Leth Steensen, Craig ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comparative judgments; Cultural influences; Mental number line; Reading direction; SNARC effect; Spatial representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM; WRITING;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; SYMBOLISM; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865316618     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026729     Document Type: Article

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