Time and space are tightly linked in the physical word. Recently, several lines of evidence
have suggested that the mental representation of time might be spatial in nature. For …

Spatial–numerical associations (SNAs) are prevalent yet their origin is poorly understood.
We first consider the possible prime role of reading habits in shaping SNAs and list three …

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly
updated fourth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student …

Several psychophysical and neuropsychological investigations have suggested that the
mental representation of numbers takes the form of a number line along which magnitude is …

Representing magnitude information in various dimensions, including space, quantity, and
time, is an important function of the human brain. Many previous studies reported that …

Visual thinking-visual imagination or perception of diagrams and symbol arrays, and mental
operations on them-is omnipresent in mathematics. Is this visual thinking merely a …

The study of neuronal specialisation in different cognitive and perceptual domains is
important for our understanding of the human brain, its typical and atypical development …

Seminal case reports collected during the middle part of the XX century, designated the
parietal lobe as the principal area of damage in patients suffering from contralesional spatial …

This study explored the contribution of finger counting habits to the association of numbers
with space (the SNARC effect). First, a questionnaire study indicated that two-thirds of 445 …

Numbers are often proposed to be represented spatially as lying along a mental number
line. The present study examined whether the direction of spatial attention operates similarly …