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040			_cMANILA TYTANA COLLEGES LIBRARY
100			_aLi, Mengxia.
245		0	_aFlexible verbal-spatial mapping in the horizontal and vertical SNARC effects of mainland Chinese readers / _cMengxia Li, Entao Zhang, Yanjun Zhang, Xi Fanga, Qiwei Li
260			_cFall 2017
336			_atext
337			_aunmediated
338			_avolume
440			_n130 : 3, page 339-351 _aAmerican Journal of Psychology
520			_aTraditionally, the spatial-numerical association of response codes (SNARC) effect was explained by assuming that the processing of numbers automatically activates internal visuospatial codes. In contrast, Gevers et al. (2010) suggested that the SNARC effect can result from both visuospatial and verbal-spatial processing, with verbal-spatial being the dominant processing mechanism. The current study tested this assumption in two experiments with the SNARC effects obtained from the horizontal and the vertical directions. Consistent with the assumption of Gevers et al., the horizontal SNARC effect is dominantly driven by verbal-spatial coding in Arabic numerals and simplified and complex Chinese numbers. More specifically, in the horizontal direction, mainland Chinese participants more dominantly associate small numbers with the verbal-spatial "left" and large numbers with the verbal-spatial "right." But inconsistent with key predictions of Gevers et al., a remarkable association was found between small numbers with the visuospatial "top" and large numbers with the visuospatial "bottom" in the vertical SNARC effect for numbers in Arabic numerals and simplified Chinese numbers and a dominant association between small numbers with the verbal-spatial coding "bottom" and large numbers with the verbal-spatial coding "top" for complex Chinese numbers, also in the vertical SNARC effect. These findings demonstrate that verbal-spatial coding of numbers is flexible, which is plausible because of the direction-dissociative and notation-specific nature of number-space mapping.
521			_aPsychology.
650			_aMagnitude comparison.
650			_aSNARC effect.
650			_aVerbal-spatial coding.
650			_aVisuospatial coding.
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