Perceiving Numbers Causes Spatial Shifts of Attention

Overview

Journal Nat Neurosci

Date 2003 May 20

PMID 12754517

Citations 190

Authors

Martin H Fischer

Alan D Castel

Michael D Dodd

Jay Pratt

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Abstract

Number symbols are part of our everyday visual world. Here we show that merely looking at numbers causes a shift in covert attention to the left or right side, depending upon the number's magnitude. This observation implies obligatory activation of number meaning and signals a tight coupling of internal and external representations of space.

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