The Size and Sequence Information Isolated in Processing of SNARC Effect

Abstract

Abstract: In this study, two different materials were used to isolate size information and serial information of SNARC effect on Arab numbers with east and west longitudes and Chinese and Japanese language assessing rank numbers. The results were that the classical SNARC effect appeared in processing of east longitudes, but in processing of west longitudes, it was reversed. Positive number group appeared reversed SNARC effect in processing of Chinese rank numbers and classical SNARC effect in Japanese rank numbers. The SNARC effect reversed in processing of negative number group. These results indicated that sequence information have more effect on SNARC effect than size information.

Key words: SNARC effect, mental number line, size information, sequence information

摘要： 分别以经度数和语言等级数为材料，采用快速刺激分类范式，通过两个实验试图分离出SNARC效应中的数字大小和顺序信息。结果发现，被试在对东经经度数的加工中存在SNARC效应，对西经经度数的加工出现反转的SNARC效应；正数组被试在汉语等级数加工中出现反转的SNARC效应，在日语等级数加工中出现SNARC效应，而负数组恰好相反。本研究表明，数字SNARC效应在大小信息和顺序信息中出现了分离，相较数字的大小信息而言，数字的顺序信息对SNARC效应影响更大。

关键词: SNARC效应, 心理数字线, 大小信息, 顺序信息。

CLC Number:

B842

Jin Guichun, Wang Qiangqiang, Wang Youzhi, Wu Yanwen. The Size and Sequence Information Isolated in Processing of SNARC Effect[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2016, 14(2): 228-233.

金桂春,王强强,王有智,吴彦文. 数字SNARC效应中大小和顺序信息的分离^*[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2016, 14(2): 228-233.

References

高在峰, 水仁德, 陈晶, 陈雯, 田瑛, 沈模卫.(2009). 负数的空间表征机制. 心理学报, 141(2), 95-102.
胡林成, 熊哲宏.(2011). 刺激模拟量的空间表征: 面积和亮度的类SNARC效应. 心理科学, 34(1), 58-62.
任杰, 苏培伟, 甄宽.(2013). 图形材料加工中的SNARC 效应: 数量信息与顺序信息的作用. 心理研究, 6(6), 45-50.
王琦, 李红, 张丽, 陈雪梅.(2011). 数量表征的符号特异性和符号非特异性. 心理科学进展, 19(6), 832-842.
吴彦文, 杨龙.(2013). 计数单位的空间联合编码效应. 心理与行为研究, 11(4), 440-443.
杨金桥.(2009). 言语信息激活对中文数字空间表征的影响. 宁波大学学报(教育科学版), 31(2), 52–56.
张宇, 游旭群.(2012). 负数的空间表征引起的空间注意转移. 心理学报, 44(3), 285-294.
朱小同, 王强强.(2014). 西经经度数加工中SNARC效应的反转. 成都师范学院学报, 30(5), 22-24.
Bonato, M., Fabbri, S., & Umilta, C.(2007). The mental representation of numerical fractions: Real or integer?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(6), 1410-1419.
B?覿chtold, D., Baumüller, M., & Brugger, P.(1998). Stimulus-response compatibility in representational space. Neuropsychologia, 36(8), 731-735.
Dehaene, S., Bossini, S., & Giraux, P.(1993). The mental representation of parity and numerical magnitude. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 3, 371-396.
Fischer, M. H., Riello, M., & Giordano, B. L.(2013). Singing study of the link between pitch, space, and numbers. Topics in Cognitive Science, 5(2), 354-366.
Gevers, W., Reynvoet, B., & Fias W.(2003). The mental representation of ordinal sequences is spatially organized. Cognition, 87, B87-B95.
Gevers, W., Reynvoet, B., & Fias, W.(2004). The mental representation of ordinal sequences is spatially organised: Evidence from days of the week. Cortex, 40, 171-172.
Holmes, K. J., & Lourenco, S. F.(2011). Common spatial organization of number and emotional expression: A mental magnitude line. Brain and Cognition, 77, 315-323.
Hoffmann, D., Hornung, C., Martin, R., & Schiltz, C.(2013). Developing number-space associations: SNARC effects using a color discrimination task in 5-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 775-791.
Kirjakovski, A., & Utsuki, N.(2012). From SNARC to SQUARC: Universal mental quantity line?. International Journal of Psychological Studies, 4(2), 217-227.
Lidji, P., Kolinsky, R., & Lochy, A.(2007). Spatial associations for musical stimuli: A piano in the head?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(5), 1189-1207.
Nuerk, H. C., Moeller, K., & Klein, E.(2011). Extending the mental number line a review of multi-digit number processing. Journal of Psychology, 1(219), 3-22.
Nuerk, H. C., Wood, G., & Willmes, K.(2005). The universal SNARC effect. Experimental Psychology, 52(3), 187-194.
Previtali, P., de Hevia, M. D., & Girelli, L.(2010). Placing order in space: the SNARC effect in serial learning. Experimental Brain Research, 201, 599-605.
Pinhas, M., Tzelgov, J., & Ganor-Stern, D.(2012). Estimating linear effects in ANOVA designs: The easy way. Behaviour Research, 44, 788-794.
Stern, D. G.(2012). Fractions but not negative numbers are represented on the mental number line. Acta Psychologica, 139, 350-357.
Tan, S., & Dixon, P.(2011). Repetition and the SNARC effect with one- and two-digit numbers. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(2), 84-97.
Turconi, E., Campbell, J., & Seron, X.(2006). Numerical order and quantity processing in number comparison. Cognition, 98, 273-285.
Zebian, S.(2005). Linkages between number concepts, spatial thinking, and directionality of writing: The SNARC effect and the reverse SNARC effect in English and Arabic Monoliterates, Biliterates, and Illiterate Arabic speakers. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 5, 165-190.
Zhao, H., Chen, C.S, & Zhang, H.(2012). Is order the defining feature of magnitude representation? An ERP study on learning numerical magnitude and spatial order of artificial symbols. Plos One, 11(7), 1-9.

[1]	PAN Yun, ZHAO Zhujun, DAI Longnong. The Effect of Verbal and Spatial Task Instructions on the Coding of Number-Space Interactions [J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2020, 18(6): 734-740.
[2]	ZANG Beilei, ZHANG Jun, GU Rongfang. The Development of Children’s Mental Number Line: Strategies Behind the Estimation Accuracy and Model [J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2019, 17(6): 795-802.
[3]	PAN Yun, YANG Yang, ZOU Changlang, CHEN Yan, LONG Nv. The Influence of the Spatial Reference Frame of the Subject and the Object on Spatial-Numerical Association [J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2019, 17(5): 613-619.
[4]	LI Yajun, LIU Yang, WEN Suxia. The Influence of Writing Habit on SNARC Effect in Numbers Spatial Representation [J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2018, 16(5): 618-623.
[5]	Jin Guichun, Wang Youzhi, Wang Li. The Inhibition of Simon Effect for Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes Effect [J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2017, 15(4): 489-494.
[6]	Wu Yanwen, Yang Long. The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes Effect on Counting Units [J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2013, 11(4): 440-443.
[7]	Kong Feng；Zhao Jingjing；You Xuqun；Zhang Yu. The Attentional SNARC Effect Caused by Low-level Processing of Negative Numbers in Auditory Modality [J]. , 2012, 10(1): 12-17.
[8]	Pan Yun；Shen Deli；Wang Jie. THE SPATIAL NUMERICAL ASSOCIATION OF RESPONSE CODES EFFECT OF CHINESE CHARACTER NUMBER PROCESSING IN DIFFERENT ATTENTION REFERENTIAL CUES [J]. , 2009, 7(1): 21-26.