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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 3/2016

08-12-2015 | Original Article

Dynamic mental number line in simple arithmetic

Auteurs: Xiaodan Yu, Jie Liu, Dawei Li, Hang Liu, Jiaxin Cui, Xinlin Zhou

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 3/2016

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Abstract

Studies have found that spatial-numerical associations could extend to arithmetic. Addition leads to rightward shift in spatial attention while subtraction leads to leftward shift (e.g., Knops et al. 2009; McCrink et al. 2007; Pinhas & Fischer 2008), which is consistent with the hypothesis of static mental number line (MNL) for arithmetic. The current investigation tested the hypothesis of dynamic mental number line which was shaped by the relative magnitudes of two operands in simple arithmetic. Horizontal and vertical electrooculograms (HEOG and VEOG) during simple arithmetic were recorded. Results showed that the direction of eye movements was dependent on the relative magnitudes of two operands. Subtraction was associated with larger rightward eye movements than addition (Experiment 1), and smaller-operand-first addition (e.g., 2+9) was associated with larger rightward eye movement than larger-operand-first addition (e.g., 9+2) only when the difference of two operands was large (Experiment 2). The results suggest that the direction of the mental number line could be dynamic during simple arithmetic, and that the eyes move along the dynamic mental number line to search for solutions.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Dynamic mental number line in simple arithmetic
Auteurs
Xiaodan Yu
Jie Liu
Dawei Li
Hang Liu
Jiaxin Cui
Xinlin Zhou
Publicatiedatum
08-12-2015
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 3/2016
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-015-0730-5

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