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The mental representation of ordinal sequences is spatially organized.
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Two experiments involving months and letters are presented in which spatial coding is demonstrated and an association between ordinal position and spatial response preference is shown, showing that the spatial component of the ordinal representation can be automatically activated.About:
This article is published in Cognition.The article was published on 2003-04-01. It has received 424 citations till now.read more
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Interactions between number and space in parietal cortex.
TL;DR: It is proposed that these numerical–spatial interactions arise from common parietal circuits for attention to external space and internal representations of numbers.
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Handbook of mathematical cognition
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of conceptual metaphor in the development of number processing in pre-school children and discuss the importance of conceptual metaphor for number representation in mathematics.
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Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention
TL;DR: It is shown that merely looking at numbers causes a shift in covert attention to the left or right side, depending upon the number's magnitude, which implies obligatory activation of number meaning and signals a tight coupling of internal and external representations of space.
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Spatial representation of pitch height : the SMARC effect
TL;DR: The authors showed that the internal representation of pitch height is spatial in nature and affects performance, especially in musically trained participants, when response alternatives are either vertically or horizontally aligned, which suggests an interesting analogy between music perception and mathematical cognition and suggests that the basic elements of mathematical cognition appear to be mapped onto a mental spatial representation in a way that affects motor performance.
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Counting on neurons: the neurobiology of numerical competence.
TL;DR: Neural representations of numerical information can engage extensive cerebral networks, but the posterior parietal cortex and the prefrontal cortex are the key structures in primates.
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Cerebral Pathways for Calculation: Double Dissociation between Rote Verbal and Quantitative Knowledge of Arithmetic
TL;DR: It is suggested that a left subcortical network contributes to the storage and retrieval of rote verbal arithmetic facts, while a bilateral inferior parietal network is dedicated to the mental manipulation of numerical quantities.
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Regression analyses of repeated measures data in cognitive research.
Robert F. Lorch,Jerome L. Myers +1 more
TL;DR: Two commonly used approaches to analyzing repeated measures designs are considered and it is argued that both approaches use inappropriate error terms for testing the effects of independent variables.
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Non-verbal numerical cognition: from reals to integers.
TL;DR: In this paper, a non-verbal counting process represents discrete (countable) quantities by means of magnitudes with scalar variability, which appear to be identical to the magnitudes that represent continuous (uncountable), such as duration.