Numerical comparison is spatial-Except when it is not.

IF 3.7 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-05 DOI:10.1037/xge0001644

Fraulein Retanal, Véronic Delage, Evan F Risko, Erin A Maloney

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Abstract

The numerical distance effect (NDE) is an important tool for probing the nature of numerical representation. Across two studies, we assessed the degree to which the NDE relates to one's performance on spatial tasks to investigate the role of spatial processing in numerical comparison and, by extension, numerical cognition. We administered numerical comparison tasks and a variety of tasks thought to tap into different aspects of spatial processing. Importantly, we administered both the simultaneous comparison task and the comparison to a standard task, given claims that the NDEs that arise in these two tasks are different. In both studies, the NDEs elicited when comparing simultaneously presented numbers were more strongly negatively correlated with an individual's performance on the spatial tasks than the NDEs elicited when comparing numbers to a standard. The implications of these data for our understanding of numerical comparison tasks and numerical cognition more generally are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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数值比较是空间性的--除非它不是。

数字距离效应（NDE）是探究数字表征本质的重要工具。在两项研究中，我们评估了 NDE 与一个人在空间任务中的表现的相关程度，以研究空间处理在数字比较中的作用，并进而研究数字认知。我们进行了数字比较任务和各种被认为能够挖掘空间处理不同方面的任务。重要的是，我们同时进行了同步比较任务和与标准任务的比较，因为这两项任务中出现的无意识状态是不同的。在这两项研究中，比较同时呈现的数字时所引发的无意识状态与个体在空间任务中的表现相比，负相关程度更强，而比较数字与标准时所引发的无意识状态与个体在空间任务中的表现相比，负相关程度更弱。本文讨论了这些数据对我们理解数字比较任务和一般数字认知的影响。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有）。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

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6.20

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4.90%

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300

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General publishes articles describing empirical work that bridges the traditional interests of two or more communities of psychology. The work may touch on issues dealt with in JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, JEP: Animal Behavior Processes, or JEP: Applied, but may also concern issues in other subdisciplines of psychology, including social processes, developmental processes, psychopathology, neuroscience, or computational modeling. Articles in JEP: General may be longer than the usual journal publication if necessary, but shorter articles that bridge subdisciplines will also be considered.