When time is space: Evidence for a mental time line

M Bonato, M Zorzi, C Umiltà - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Time and space are tightly linked in the physical word. Recently, several lines of evidence
have suggested that the mental representation of time might be spatial in nature. For …

Knowledge across reference frames: Cognitive maps and image spaces

R Bottini, CF Doeller - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020 - cell.com
In human and non-human animals, conceptual knowledge is partially organized according
to low-dimensional geometries that rely on brain structures and computations involved in …

A working memory account for spatial–numerical associations

JP van Dijck, W Fias - Cognition, 2011 - Elsevier
Several psychophysical and neuropsychological investigations have suggested that the
mental representation of numbers takes the form of a number line along which magnitude is …

At birth, humans associate “few” with left and “many” with right

MD de Hevia, L Veggiotti, A Streri, CD Bonn - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Humans use spatial representations to structure abstract concepts [1]. One of the most well-
known examples is the" mental number line"—the propensity to imagine numbers oriented …

Number magnitude processing and basic cognitive functions in children with mathematical learning disabilities

U Andersson, R Östergren - Learning and Individual Differences, 2012 - Elsevier
The study sought out to extend our knowledge regarding the origin of mathematical learning
disabilities (MLD) in children by testing different hypotheses in the same samples of …

Human infants' preference for left-to-right oriented increasing numerical sequences

MD de Hevia, L Girelli, M Addabbo, V Macchi Cassia - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
While associations between number and space, in the form of a spatially oriented numerical
representation, have been extensively reported in human adults, the origins of this …

A working memory account of the interaction between numbers and spatial attention

JP Van Dijck, EL Abrahamse, F Acar… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Rather than reflecting the long-term memory construct of a mental number line, it has been
proposed that the relation between numbers and space is of a more temporary nature and …

Number processing and heterogeneity of developmental dyscalculia: Subtypes with different cognitive profiles and deficits

K Skagerlund, U Träff - Journal of learning disabilities, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigated if developmental dyscalculia (DD) in children with different profiles of
mathematical deficits has the same or different cognitive origins. The defective approximate …

[HTML][HTML] Develo** number–space associations: SNARC effects using a color discrimination task in 5-year-olds

D Hoffmann, C Hornung, R Martin, C Schiltz - Journal of experimental child …, 2013 - Elsevier
Human adults' numerical representation is spatially oriented; consequently, participants are
faster to respond to small/large numerals with their left/right hand, respectively, when doing …

Spatialization in working memory is related to literacy and reading direction: Culture “literarily” directs our thoughts

A Guida, AM Megreya, M Lavielle-Guida, Y Noël… - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
The ability to maintain arbitrary sequences of items in the mind contributes to major cognitive
faculties, such as language, reasoning, and episodic memory. Previous research suggests …