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 …

The spatial–numerical association of response codes effect and math skills: why related?

K Cipora, Y He, HC Nuerk - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Evidence from multiple studies conducted in the past few decades converges on the
conclusion that numerical properties can be associated with specific directions in space …

How does working memory enable number-induced spatial biases?

E Abrahamse, JP Van Dijck, W Fias - Frontiers in Psychology, 2016‏ - frontiersin.org
Number-space associations are a robust observation, but their underlying mechanisms
remain debated. Two major accounts have been identified. First, spatial codes may …

It's SNARC o'clock: Manipulating the salience of the context in a conceptual replication of Bächtold et al.'s (1998) clockface study

S Mingolo, V Prpic, A Mariconda, P Brugger… - Psychological …, 2024‏ - Springer
Abstract The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect consists in
faster left-/right-key responses to small/large numbers.(Bächtold et al., Neuropsychologia 36 …

One and only SNARC? Spatial-Numerical Associations are not fully flexible and depend on both relative and absolute number magnitude

L Roth, J Caffier, UD Reips… - Royal Society …, 2025‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Numbers are associated with space, but it is unclear how flexible these associations are. We
investigated whether the SNARC effect (Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes; …

Reading/writing direction as a source of directional bias in spatial cognition: Possible mechanisms and scope

N Faghihi, J Vaid - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2023‏ - Springer
Becoming literate has been argued to have a range of social, economic and psychological
effects. Less examined is the extent to which repercussions of becoming literate may vary as …

A Minority pulls the sample mean: on the individual prevalence of robust group-level cognitive phenomena–the instance of the SNARC effect

K Cipora, JP van Dijck, C Georges, N Masson… - 2019‏ - osf.io
The aim of cognitive psychology is to obtain insights into human cognition in general. For
this purpose, group-studies are typically conducted on representative samples, such that the …

What's behind a “+” sign? Perceiving an arithmetic operator recruits brain circuits for spatial orienting

R Mathieu, J Epinat-Duclos, M Sigovan… - Cerebral …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Do mathematical symbols evoke spatial representations? Although behavioral studies have
long demonstrated interactions between space and the processing of Arabic digits, how to …

[HTML][HTML] No fingers, no SNARC? Neither the finger counting starting hand, nor its stability robustly affect the SNARC effect

M Hohol, K Wołoszyn, K Cipora - Acta Psychologica, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect (ie, faster
left/right sided responses to small/large magnitude numbers, respectively) is considered to …

Reconstructing the origins of the space-number association: Spatial and number-magnitude codes must be used jointly to elicit spatially organised mental number …

M Pinto, M Pellegrino, F Marson, S Lasaponara… - Cognition, 2019‏ - Elsevier
In a series of five experiments with unimanual Go/No-Go tasks and intermixed Arabic
numerical, ie numbers lower or higher than 5, and directional targets, ie arrows pointing to …