Temporal Order Judgment Reveals How Number Magnitude Affects Visuospatial Attention

Autor/inn/en	Casarotti, Marco; Michielin, Marika; Zorzi, Marco; Umilta, Carlo
Titel	Temporal Order Judgment Reveals How Number Magnitude Affects Visuospatial Attention
Quelle	In: Cognition, 102 (2007) 1, S.101-117 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2006.09.001
Schlagwörter	Spatial Ability; Numbers; Attention; Visual Stimuli; Number Concepts; Cognitive Processes; Schemata (Cognition) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Zahlenraum; Aufmerksamkeit; Number concept; Zahlbegriff; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Cognition; Schema; Kognition
Abstract	The existence of spatial components in the mental representation of number magnitude has raised the question regarding the relation between numbers and spatial attention. We present six experiments in which this relation was examined using a temporal order judgment task to index attentional allocation. Results demonstrate that one important consequence of numerical processing is the automatic allocation of spatial attention, which in turn affects the perception of the temporal order of visual events. Given equal onset time, left-side stimuli are perceived to occur before right-side stimuli when a small number (1, 2) is processed, whereas right-side stimuli are perceived to occur before left-side stimuli when a larger number (8, 9) is processed. In addition, we show that this attentional effect is specific to quantity processing and does not generalize to non-numerical ordinal sequences. (Author).
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