A Feeling for Numbers: Shared Metric for Symbolic and Tactile Numerosities

Evidence for an approximate analogue system of numbers has been provided by the finding that the comparison of two numerals takes longer and is more error prone if the semantic distance between the numbers becomes smaller (so-called numerical distance effect). Recent embodied theories suggest that a...

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Main Authors: Florian eKrause, Harold eBekkering, Oliver eLindemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00007/full