Moving along the Mental Number Line: Interactions between Whole-Body Motion and Numerical Cognition

Autor/inn/en	Hartmann, Matthias; Grabherr, Luzia; Mast, Fred W.
Titel	Moving along the Mental Number Line: Interactions between Whole-Body Motion and Numerical Cognition
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38 (2012) 6, S.1416-1427 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0026706
Schlagwörter	Numbers; Motion; Cognitive Processes; Attention; Auditory Stimuli; Spatial Ability; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zahlenraum; Bewegungsablauf; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Aufmerksamkeit; Auditive Stimulation; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Ausland; Schweiz
Abstract	Active head turns to the left and right have recently been shown to influence numerical cognition by shifting attention along the mental number line. In the present study, we found that passive whole-body motion influences numerical cognition. In a random-number generation task (Experiment 1), leftward and downward displacement of participants facilitated small number generation, whereas rightward and upward displacement facilitated the generation of large numbers. Influences of leftward and rightward motion were also found for the processing of auditorily presented numbers in a magnitude-judgment task (Experiment 2). Additionally, we investigated the reverse effect of the number-space association (Experiment 3). Participants were displaced leftward or rightward and asked to detect motion direction as fast as possible while small or large numbers were auditorily presented. When motion detection was difficult, leftward motion was detected faster when hearing small number and rightward motion when hearing large number. We provide new evidence that bottom-up vestibular activation is sufficient to interact with the higher-order spatial representation underlying numerical cognition. The results show that action planning or motor activity is not necessary to influence spatial attention. Moreover, our results suggest that self-motion perception and numerical cognition can mutually influence each other. (Contains 5 figures and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10