Vertical versus horizontal Spatial-Numerical Associations (SNA): A processing advantage for the vertical dimension.

ABSTRACT: Humans have associations between numbers and physical space on both horizontal and vertical dimensions, called Spatial-Numerical Associations (SNAs). Several studies have considered the hypothesis of there being a dominant orientation by examining on which dimension people are more accurate and efficient at responding during various directional SNA tasks. However, these studies have difficulty differentiating between a person's efficiency at accessing mental representations of numbers in space, and the efficiency at which they exercise motor control functions, particularly bilateral ones, when manifesting a response during an explicit directional SNA task. In this study we use a conflict test employing combined explicit magnitude and spatial directional processing in which pairs of numbers

SUBMITTER: Greenacre L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9409557 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature