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

Evidence for an approximate analog 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 ana...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Krause, Florian, Bekkering, Harold, Lindemann, Oliver
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3554835/