In industrialized groups, adults implicitly map numbers, time, and size onto space according
to cultural practices like reading and counting (eg, from left to right). Here, we tested the …

In this article, we contextualize and discuss an on-line contribution to this special issue in
which a video-recorded lecture demonstrates the teaching of an abstract mathematical …

Across cultures, people frequently communicate about time in terms of space. English
speakers in the United States, for example, might “look forward” to the future or gesture …

There is substantial evidence linking numerical magnitude to the physical properties of
space. The most influential support for this connection comes from the SNARC effect (spatial …

Multiple tasks have been used to demonstrate the relation between numbers and space.
The classic interpretation of these directional spatial–numerical associations (d-SNAs) is …

Many metaphors in language reflect conceptual metaphors that structure thought. In line with
metaphorical expressions such as 'high number', experiments show that people associate …

Smaller numbers are typically responded to faster with a bottom than a top key, whereas the
opposite occurs for larger numbers (a vertical spatial–numerical association of response …

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) both are rare
genetic neuromuscular diseases with progressive loss of motor ability. The neuromotor …

Maintaining serial order in working memory is crucial for cognition. Recent theories propose
that serial information is achieved by positional coding of items on a spatial frame of …

How quantifiers are represented in the human mind is still a topic of intense debate. Seminal
studies have addressed the issue of how a subclass of quantifiers, that is, number words, is …