Vertical Spatial Representation of the Ordinal Number under Different Contexts：Evidence fromthe SNARC Effect

Dan Luo

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Abstract:To explore the SNARC effect of vertical spatial representation of the ordinal number under different contexts (abstract, specific, between abstract and specific), the study used the timed odd-even judgment task. The participants were required to judge and respond to the stimuli presented according to the parity. The positive sequence and the reciprocal numerals were used as experiment materials. A total of 69 undergraduates and postgraduates from the same college were chosen to be experimental subjects. The results indicated that: Size effect all showed up in those vertical spatial representation of the ordinal numbers, but the SNARC effect did not appear significantly. All results demonstrated that the spatial representation of ordinal number in vertical dimension affected by the contexts to a certain extent, providing support for its instability and lack of automatism.

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SNARC effect;mental number line;ordinal;situational difference;vertical spatial representation

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12346/fhe.v2i4.2779

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