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The Effect of Verbal Task Instruction on Spatial-Numerical Associations of Response Codes Effect Coding of Spatial-Numerical Associations: Evidence From Event-Related Potential

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FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue -, Pages -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.648095

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SNARC effect; verbal-spatial instruction; coding; SOAs; LRP

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This study investigated the impact of verbal-spatial task instructions on spatial-numerical association coding using ERP technology. The results revealed that the SNARC effect is mainly based on verbal-spatial coding and is influenced by the processing of word labels.
The spatial-numerical associations of response codes (SNARC) effect reveals that individuals can represent numbers spatially. In this study, event-related potential (ERP) technology was used to probe the effect of verbal-spatial task instructions on spatial-numerical association coding by using digit parity and magnitude judgment tasks, with the numbers 1-9 (except 5) and Chinese word labels (left and right) as experimental materials. The behavioral results of Experiment 1 showed that the SNARC effect was mainly based on verbal-spatial coding and appeared when the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between the presentation of the verbal labels and the target digit was 0 ms. ERP results did not reveal any significant SNARC-related effects in either the N1 or P3 components. The behavioral results of Experiment 2 again showed that the SNARC effect was dominated by verbal-spatial coding. ERP results showed that significant effects related to verbal-spatial coding were found in both the early positive deflection of the stimulus-locked lateralized readiness potential (S-LRP) and the latency of the response-locked LRP (R-LRP). Hence, in this study, the nature of the spatial coding of the digit magnitudes was influenced by the processing of the word labels and affected both the response selection and response preparation stages.

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