Spatial Biases in Approximate Arithmetic Are Subject to Sequential Dependency Effects and Dissociate From Attentional Biases

Abstract: The notion that mental arithmetic is associated with shifts of spatial attention along a spatially organised mental number representation has received empirical support from three lines of research. First, participants tend to overestimate results of addition and underestimate those of subtraction problems in both exact and approximate formats. This has been termed the operational momentum (OM) effect. Second, participants are faster in detecting right-sided targets presented in the course of addition problems and left-sided targets in subtraction problems (attentional bias). Third, participants are biased toward choosing right-sided response alternatives to indicate the results of addition problems and left-sided response alternatives for subtraction problems (Spatial Association Of Responses [SOAR] effect). These effects potentially have their origin in operation-specific shifts of attention along a spatially organised mental number representation: rightward for addition and left.... https://jnc.psychopen.eu/index.php/jnc/article/view/8373

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Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Spatial Biases in Approximate Arithmetic Are Subject to Sequential Dependency Effects and Dissociate From Attentional Biases ; volume:9 ; number:1 ; day:31 ; month:03 ; year:2023
Journal of numerical cognition ; 9, Heft 1 (31.03.2023)

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Glaser, Maria
Knops, André

DOI
10.5964/jnc.8373
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023041505120127201859
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