Size matters: non-numerical magnitude affects the spatial coding of response.

It is known that small and large numbers facilitate left/right respectively (the SNARC effect). Recently, it has been proposed that numerical magnitude is just one example of a range of quantities, which have a common cognitive/neural representation. To investigate this proposition, response congrue...

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Autores principales:	Ping Ren, Michael E R Nicholls, Yuan-ye Ma, Lin Chen
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f5f6c2b1fccb49a5abb1a03dc291ae802021-11-18T06:48:09ZSize matters: non-numerical magnitude affects the spatial coding of response.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0023553https://doaj.org/article/f5f6c2b1fccb49a5abb1a03dc291ae802011-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21853151/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203It is known that small and large numbers facilitate left/right respectively (the SNARC effect). Recently, it has been proposed that numerical magnitude is just one example of a range of quantities, which have a common cognitive/neural representation. To investigate this proposition, response congruency effects were explored for stimuli which differed according to their: (a) numerical size, (b) physical size, (c) luminance, (d) conceptual size and (e) auditory intensity. In a series of experiments, groups of undergraduate participants made two-alternative forced choice discriminations with their left or right hands. There were clear interactions between magnitude and responding hand whereby right hand responses were faster for stimuli with (a) large numbers, (b) large physical size, (c) low luminance, and (d) a reference to large objects. There was no congruency effect for the auditory stimuli. The data demonstrate that the response congruency effect observed for numbers also occurs for a variety of other non-numerical visual quantities. These results support models of general magnitude representation and suggest that the association between magnitude and the left/right sides of space may not be related to culture and/or directional reading habits.Ping RenMichael E R NichollsYuan-ye MaLin ChenPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 8, p e23553 (2011)
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description	It is known that small and large numbers facilitate left/right respectively (the SNARC effect). Recently, it has been proposed that numerical magnitude is just one example of a range of quantities, which have a common cognitive/neural representation. To investigate this proposition, response congruency effects were explored for stimuli which differed according to their: (a) numerical size, (b) physical size, (c) luminance, (d) conceptual size and (e) auditory intensity. In a series of experiments, groups of undergraduate participants made two-alternative forced choice discriminations with their left or right hands. There were clear interactions between magnitude and responding hand whereby right hand responses were faster for stimuli with (a) large numbers, (b) large physical size, (c) low luminance, and (d) a reference to large objects. There was no congruency effect for the auditory stimuli. The data demonstrate that the response congruency effect observed for numbers also occurs for a variety of other non-numerical visual quantities. These results support models of general magnitude representation and suggest that the association between magnitude and the left/right sides of space may not be related to culture and/or directional reading habits.
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title	Size matters: non-numerical magnitude affects the spatial coding of response.
title_short	Size matters: non-numerical magnitude affects the spatial coding of response.
title_full	Size matters: non-numerical magnitude affects the spatial coding of response.
title_fullStr	Size matters: non-numerical magnitude affects the spatial coding of response.
title_full_unstemmed	Size matters: non-numerical magnitude affects the spatial coding of response.
title_sort	size matters: non-numerical magnitude affects the spatial coding of response.
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Size matters: non-numerical magnitude affects the spatial coding of response.

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