Spatial training improves children's mathematics ability

YL Cheng, KS Mix - Journal of cognition and development, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
We tested whether mental rotation training improved math performance in 6-to 8-year-olds.
Children were pretested on a range of number and math skills. Then one group received a …

[HTML][HTML] Number-induced shifts in spatial attention: a replication study

K Zanolie, D Pecher - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
In a spatial attention paradigm, Fischer et al.(2003) showed that merely perceiving a number
shifted attention according to the magnitude of the number. Low numbers shifted attention to …

Are numbers, size and brightness equally efficient in orienting visual attention? Evidence from an eye-tracking study

H Bulf, V Macchi Cassia, MD de Hevia - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
A number of studies have shown strong relations between numbers and oriented spatial
codes. For example, perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention depending upon …

The effects of numerical magnitude, size, and color saturation on perceived interval duration.

D Alards-Tomalin, JP Leboe-McGowan… - Journal of …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
The relative magnitude (or intensity) of an event can have direct implications on timing
estimation. Previous studies have found that greater magnitude stimuli are often reported as …

Language statistics explain the spatial–numerical association of response codes

S Hutchinson, MM Louwerse - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2014 - Springer
The spatial–numerical association of response codes (SNARC) has shown that parity
judgments with participants' left hands yield faster response times (RTs) for smaller numbers …

Number processing of A rabic and H ebrew bilinguals: Evidence supporting the distance effect

D Ganayim, R Ibrahim - Japanese Psychological Research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In the current study, a direct assessment of the effect of language lexical‐syntactic structure
and magnitude semantic access on numerical processing was made by contrasting the …

A cross-sectional developmental examination of the SNARC effect in a visually-guided grasping task

KJ Mills, BR Rousseau, CLR Gonzalez - Neuropsychologia, 2014 - Elsevier
The present study documents the influence of numerical processing on hand and space use
during a reach-to-grasp task. Three questions regarding the SNARC (spatial–numerical …

Modelling learning to count in humanoid robots

M Rucinski - 2014 - pearl.plymouth.ac.uk
This thesis concerns the formulation of novel developmental robotics models of embodied
phenomena in number learning. Learning to count is believed to be of paramount …

[PDF][PDF] Objects and substances in vision, language, and development

D Odic - 2014 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
In this dissertation, I explore how linguistic representations (eg, lexical and sentential
meanings) interface and interact with the innately-specified core cognitive representations …

The Role of Linguistics Habits and Proprioception Sense on Mental Number Line

LP Lee, YY Shek, R Mok, LY Lo - Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
The present study investigated the relationship between linguistic styles and numerical
representation as evidenced by the Spatial Numerical Association of Response Codes …