Spatial Biases During Mental Arithmetic: Evidence from Eye Movements on a Blank Screen

While the influence of spatial-numerical associations in number categorization tasks has been well established, their role in mental arithmetic is less clear. It has been hypothesized that mental addition leads to rightward and upward shifts of spatial attention (along the mental number line), where...

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Main Authors: Matthias eHartmann, Fred W Mast, Martin H Fischer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00012/full