On the genesis of spatial-numerical associations: Evolutionary and cultural factors co-construct the mental number line

EY Toomarian, EM Hubbard - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Map** numbers onto space is a common cognitive representation that has been explored
in both behavioral and neuroimaging contexts. Empirical work probing the diverse nature of …

Number concepts: abstract and embodied

MH Fischer, S Shaki - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Numerical knowledge, including number concepts and arithmetic procedures, seems to be a
clear-cut case for abstract symbol manipulation. Yet, evidence from perceptual and motor …

Sensory linguistics

B Winter - 2019 - torrossa.com
Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

The developmental relations between spatial cognition and mathematics in primary school children

KA Gilligan, A Hodgkiss, MSC Thomas… - Developmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial thinking is an important predictor of mathematics. However, existing data do not
determine whether all spatial sub‐domains are equally important for mathematics outcomes …

Spatial concepts of number, size, and time in an indigenous culture

B Pitt, S Ferrigno, JF Cantlon, D Casasanto… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
In industrialized groups, adults implicitly map numbers, time, and size onto space according
to cultural practices like reading and counting (eg, from left to right). Here, we tested the …

Deconstructing spatial-numerical associations

S Shaki, MH Fischer - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Spatial-numerical associations (SNAs) have been studied extensively in the past two
decades, always requiring either explicit magnitude processing or explicit spatial-directional …

Perceptual experience norms for 506 Russian nouns: Modality rating, spatial localization, manipulability, imageability and other variables

A Miklashevsky - Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2018 - Springer
A number of new psycholinguistic variables has been proposed during the last years within
embodied cognition framework: modality experience rating (ie, relationship between words …

'Tiny numbers' are actually tiny: Evidence from gestures in the TV News Archive

G Woodin, B Winter, M Perlman, J Littlemore… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
We report a large-scale, quantitative investigation of manual gestures that speakers perform
when speaking metaphorically about numerical quantities. We used the TV News Archive …

Cognitive effects in large language models

J Shaki, S Kraus, M Wooldridge - ECAI 2023, 2023 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have received enormous
attention over the past year and are now used by hundreds of millions of people every day …

When time stands upright: STEARC effects along the vertical axis

M Dalmaso, Y Schnapper, M Vicovaro - Psychological Research, 2023 - Springer
According to the spatial–temporal association of response codes (STEARC) effect, time can
be spatially represented from left to right. However, exploration of a possible STEARC effect …