Numerical distance and size effects dissociate in Indo-Arabic number comparison

• Published in: Psychonomic bulletin & review Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 927 - 934
• Main Author: Krajcsi, Attila
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.06.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Analog; Animal behavior; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Brief Report; Child psychology; Cognition; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive Psychology; Experimental psychology; Female; Humans; Male; Mathematics; Neurosciences; Psychology; Semantics; Young Adult; Numerical size effect; Numerical distance effect; Discrete semantic system; Analog number system

Numerical distance and size effects (easier number comparisons with large distance or small size) are mostly supposed to reflect a single effect, the ratio effect, which is a consequence of activation of the analog number system (ANS), working according to Weber’s law. In an alternative model, symbo...