期刊
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 193, 期 1, 页码 151-156出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1698-9
关键词
Numerical cognition; Mental number line; Compressive and linear scaling
Although the spatial representation of number (mental number line) is well documented, the scaling associated with this representation is less clear. Sometimes people appear to rely on compressive scaling, and sometimes on linear scaling. Here we provide evidence for both compressive and linear representations on the same numerical bisection task, in which adult participants estimate (without calculating) the midpoint between two numbers. The same leftward bias (pseudoneglect) shown on physical line bisection appears on this task, and was previously shown to increase with the magnitude of bisected numbers, consistent with compressive scaling (Longo and Lourenco in Neuropsychologia 45:1400-1407, 2007). In the present study, participants held either small (1-9) or large (101-109) number primes in memory during bisection. When participants remembered small primes, bisection responses were consistent with compressive scaling. However, when they remembered large primes, responses were more consistent with linear scaling. These results show that compressive and linear representations may be accessed flexibly on the same task, depending on the numerical context.
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