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Mechanism of the SNARC Effect in Numerical Magnitude, Time Sequence, and Spatial Sequence Tasks: Involvement of LTM and WM

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Title
Mechanism of the SNARC Effect in Numerical Magnitude, Time Sequence, and Spatial Sequence Tasks: Involvement of LTM and WM
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Frontiers in Psychology, August 2018
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01558
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Qiangqiang Wang, Mowei Liu, Wendian Shi, Jingmei Kang

Abstract

The spatial-numerical association of response codes (SNARC) effect refers to the phenomenon that responses involving small numbers are faster with the left hand and responses involving large numbers are faster with the right hand. Previous studies have investigated the mechanism of the SNARC effect only when the time sequence is induced by centrally presented successive numbers. No study has investigated the mechanism of the SNARC effect when the spatial sequence is induced. Given that the induction of a spatial sequence together with a time sequence provides a new temporary reference for the serial order to be coded in working memory (WM), it would be interesting to examine the SNARC effect when both the time sequence and spatial sequence are induced. Therefore, a novel priming paradigm that simultaneously induced the time sequence and spatial sequence was employed in the present study to investigate the mechanism of the SNARC effect. Specifically, the time sequence and spatial sequence were induced by presenting a series of self-paced successive numbers, centrally or in a left-to-right or right-to-left direction, on the screen. Following the presentation of successive numbers, the probe number was centrally presented on the screen and university students were asked to distinguish to which time sequence or spatial sequence the probe number belonged by pressing a specified key of a qwerty keyboard. The results indicated that (1) the SNARC effect simultaneously appeared in the processing of the number magnitude and time sequence when only the time sequence was induced. (2) The SNARC effect disappeared in the processing of the time sequence; however, the SNARC effect coexisted in the processing of the numerical magnitude and spatial sequence when the spatial sequence was induced and participants performed a time sequence relevant task. (3) The SNARC effect coexisted in the processing of the numerical magnitude, time sequence, and spatial sequence when the spatial sequence was induced and participants performed a spatial sequence relevant task. Based on these results, we conclude that whether the SNARC effect coexists in the processing of the numerical magnitude, the time sequence and spatial sequence were influenced by the spatial sequence and relevant task. The results further support the mental whiteboard hypothesis and extended the WM account. Implications for theories on the SNARC effect were discussed.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 5 18%
Student > Master 3 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 12 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 8 29%
Neuroscience 5 18%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Design 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 12 43%
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