Linkages between Number Concepts, Spatial Thinking, and Directionality of Writing: The SNARC Effect and the REVERSE SNARC Effect in English and Arabic Monoliterates, Biliterates, and Illiterate Arabic Speakers.
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...In cultures that use left-to-right writing systems, like Englishspeaking cultures, the mental number line increases from left to right, and likewise the mental time line flows from left to right; the opposite is true in Arabic-speaking cultures, which use right-to-left writing systems (Chatterjee, 2001; Dehaene, Bossini, & Giraux, 1993; Maas & Russo, 2003; Tversky, Kugelmass, & Winter, 1991; Zebian, 2005)....
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...…from left to right, and likewise the mental time line flows from left to right; the opposite is true in Arabic-speaking cultures, which use right-to-left writing systems (Chatterjee, 2001; Dehaene, Bossini, & Giraux, 1993; Maas & Russo, 2003; Tversky, Kugelmass, & Winter, 1991; Zebian, 2005)....
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...The null effect for naming tasks is mainly due to the results of Zebian (2005), who found no SNARC effect for Arabic speaking participants....
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...The populations tested by Zebian (2005), as well as the task used and the response modality may be responsible for the null effect....
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...The association of larger (smaller) numbers and the right (left) hemi-space seems to be a habit acquired in and reinforced by the cultural environment and the linguistic background (Dehaene et al., 1993, Hung et al., 2007; Zebian, 2005)....
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...Fias et al., 2001, Lammertyn et al. 2002, Notebaert et al., 2006), and discrimination of visual forms (Fias et al., 2001; Zebian, 2005), as well as phoneme detection and number naming tasks (Caessens et al., 2004; Fias, 2001; Fias et al., 1996)....
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..., 2006), and discrimination of visual forms (Fias et al., 2001; Zebian, 2005), as well as phoneme detection and number naming tasks (Caessens et al....
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...…space is directly related to the left-to-right orientation of the metaphorical mental number line (smaller numbers on the left, larger numbers on the right), and they suggested that this specific orientation is formed by cultural factors such as general writing direction (see also Zebian, 2005)....
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