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There's a SNARC in the Size Congruity Task

  • The size congruity effect involves interference between numerical magnitude and physical size of visually presented numbers: congruent numbers (either both small or both large in numerical magnitude and physical size) are responded to faster than incongruent ones (small numerical magnitude/large physical size or vice versa). Besides, numerical magnitude is associated with lateralized response codes, leading to the Spatial Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect: small numerical magnitudes are preferably responded to on the left side and large ones on the right side. Whereas size congruity effects are ascribed to interference between stimulus dimensions in the decision stage, SNARC effects are understood as (in)compatibilities in stimulus-response combinations. Accordingly, size congruity and SNARC effects were previously found to be independent in parity and in physical size judgment tasks. We investigated their dependency in numerical magnitude judgment tasks. We obtained independent size congruity and SNARC effects in these tasks and replicated this observation for the parity judgment task. The results confirm and extend the notion that size congruity and SNARC effects operate in different representational spaces. We discuss possible implications for number representation.

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Author:Tina Weis, Steffen Theobald, Thomas Lachmann
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-54774
Document Type:Article
Language of publication:English
Date of Publication (online):2018/10/17
Year of first Publication:2018
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2019/01/29
Page Number:9
Source:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01978
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften
DDC-Cassification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
Collections:Open-Access-Publikationsfonds
Licence (German):Zweitveröffentlichung