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03-12-2018 | Original Article

SNARC-like compatibility effects for physical and phenomenal magnitudes: a study on visual illusions

Auteurs: Valter Prpic, Alessandro Soranzo, Ilaria Santoro, Carlo Fantoni, Alessandra Galmonte, Tiziano Agostini, Mauro Murgia

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 4/2020

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Abstract

Both numerical and non-numerical magnitudes elicit similar Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effects, with small magnitudes associated with left hand responses and large magnitudes associated with right hand responses (Dehaene et al., J Exp Psychol Gen 122(3), 371, 1993). In the present study, we investigated whether the phenomenal size of visual illusions elicits the same SNARC-like effect revealed for the physical size of pictorial surfaces. Four experiments were conducted by using the Delboeuf illusion (Experiment 1) and the Kanizsa triangle illusion (Experiments 2, 3 and 4). Experiment 1 suggests the presence of a SNARC-like compatibility effect for the physical size of the inducers, while this effect was not revealed for the phenomenal size of the induced elements, possibly masked by a stronger effect of the inducers. A SNARC-like effect for the phenomenal size of the Kanizsa triangle was revealed when participants directly compared the size of the triangles (Experiment 4). Conversely, when participants performed an indirect task (orientation judgment), the SNARC-like effect was present neither for the illusory nor for the physical displays (Experiments 2 and 3). The effect revealed for the size of illusory triangles was comparable to that of real triangles with physical contours, suggesting that both phenomenal and physical magnitudes similarly elicit SNARC-like effects.
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The displays shown in Fig. 1 are in the large inducers condition.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
SNARC-like compatibility effects for physical and phenomenal magnitudes: a study on visual illusions
Auteurs
Valter Prpic
Alessandro Soranzo
Ilaria Santoro
Carlo Fantoni
Alessandra Galmonte
Tiziano Agostini
Mauro Murgia
Publicatiedatum
03-12-2018
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 4/2020
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1125-1

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