There is a longstanding and widely held misconception about the relative remoteness of
abstract concepts from concrete experiences. This review examines the current evidence for …

Highlights•Prior experience can induce long-lasting changes in attention.•Habit-like
attention ranges from reading direction to statistical and reward learning.•Several hundred …

The ability to maintain arbitrary sequences of items in the mind contributes to major cognitive
faculties, such as language, reasoning, and episodic memory. Previous research suggests …

To better understand the contribution of the dorsal system to word reading, we explored
transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) effects when adults with developmental …

Even before formal schooling, children map numbers onto space in a directional manner.
The origin of this preliterate spatial–numerical association is still debated. We investigated …

Frequently finding a visual search target in one region of space induces a spatial attentional
bias toward that region. Past studies on this effect typically tested fewer than 20 participants …

A wealth of studies show that human adults map ordered information onto a directional
spatial continuum. We asked whether mapping ordinal information into a directional space …

The directionality of space-number association (SNA) is shaped by cultural experiences. It
usually follows the culturally dominant reading direction. Smaller numbers are generally …

Daily activities often occur in familiar environments, affording us an opportunity to learn.
Laboratory studies have shown that people readily acquire an implicit spatial preference for …

Several non-verbal perceptual and attentional processes have been linked with
specialization of the right cerebral hemisphere. Given that most people have a left …