Emotional Semantic Congruency based on stimulus driven comparative judgements

Fantoni, Carlo; Baldassi, Giulio; Rigutti, Sara; Prpic, Valter; Murgia, Mauro; Agostini, Tiziano

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.04.014

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“…So far, only a few studies explored the possible association that can occur between the valence conveyed by a given facial feature and the physical space. Most of these works employed faces displaying different expressions, such as happiness or angriness (see, e.g., Fantoni et al, 2019;Holmes & Lourenco, 2011;Pitt & Casasanto, 2018;Prete, 2020). These showed that -at least under specific circumstances -emotional valence (and its intensity) can be mapped onto the horizontal space, with negative (and lower-intensity) stimuli that would be mapped on the left and positive (and higher-intensity) stimuli that would be mapped on the right.…”

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Cross-cultural evidence of a space-ethnicity association in face categorisation

2022

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According to a space-valence association, individuals tend to relate negatively- and positively-connoted stimuli with the left and right side of space, respectively. So far, only a few studies have explored whether this phenomenon can also emerge for social dimensions associated with facial stimuli. Here, we adopted a cross-cultural approach and conducted two experiments with the main aim to test whether a left–right space-valence association can also emerge for other- vs. own-race faces. Asian Japanese (Experiment 1) and White Italian (Experiment 2) participants engaged in a speeded binary classification task in which a central placed face had to be classified as either Asian or White. Manual responses were provided through a left- vs. right-side button. In both experiments, other-race faces elicited faster responses than own-race faces, in line with the well-documented other-race categorisation advantage. Moreover, evidence of an association between space and ethnic membership also arose and, interestingly, was similar in both groups. Indeed, Asian faces were responded to faster with the right-side key than with the left-side key, whereas response side had no effect for White faces. These results are discussed with regard to possible cross-cultural differences in group perception.

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Cross-cultural evidence of a space-ethnicity association in face categorisation

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“…Similar to numbers, it has been shown that other non-numerical magnitudes are spatially coded and elicit analogous effects, which are often referred as SNARC-like effects. Examples of these effects can be found for angle magnitude (Fumarola et al, 2016), physical size of pictorial surfaces (Ren, Nicholls, Ma & Chen, 2011;, luminance (Fumarola et al, 2014;Ren et al, 2011), loudness (Hartmann & Mast, 2017) and emotional magnitude (Holmes & Lourenco, 2011; but see also Fantoni et al, 2019). Among the great variety of stimuli that elicited a similar response pattern to the SNARC effect, we will restrict the evidence reported in the literature to the domains of musical cognition and temporal information processing.…”

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Slow and fast beat sequences are represented differently through space

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Prpic

2020

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The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) suggests the existence of an association between number magnitude and response position, with faster left-hand responses to small numbers and faster right-hand responses to large numbers. Recent studies have revealed similar spatial association effects for non-numerical magnitudes, such as temporal durations and musical stimuli. In the present study we investigated whether a spatial association effect exists between music tempo, expressed in beats per minutes (bpm), and response position. In particular, we were interested in whether this effect is consistent through different bpm ranges. We asked participants to judge whether a target beat sequence was faster or slower than a reference sequence. Three groups of participants judged beat sequences from three different bpm ranges, a wide range (40, 80, 160, 200 bpm) and two narrow ranges ("slow" tempo, 40, 56, 88, 104 bpm; "fast" tempo 133, 150, 184, 201 bpm). Results showed a clear SNARC-like effect for music tempo only in the narrow "fast" tempo range, with faster left-hand responses to 133 and 150 bpm and faster right-hand responses to 184 and 201 bpm. Conversely, a similar association did not emerge in the wide nor in the narrow "slow" tempo ranges. This evidence suggests that music tempo is spatially represented as other continuous quantities, but its representation might be narrowed to a particular range of tempos. Moreover, music tempo and temporal duration might be represented across space with an opposite direction.

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“…Furthermore, SNARC-like effects have been found in the processing of nonsymbolic quantities such as luminance (Fumarola et al, 2014; Ren et al, 2011), size (Prpic et al, 2020; Ren et al, 2011), weight (Dalmaso & Vicovaro, 2019), temporal duration and pace (De Tommaso & Prpic, 2020; Ishihara et al, 2008; Vallesi et al, 2008, 2011), angle magnitude (Fumarola et al, 2016), and facial expressions of emotions (Holmes & Lourenco, 2011; see also Baldassi et al, 2021; Fantoni et al, 2019). The stimuli used in these studies are not typically organized as overlearned ordinal sequences; therefore, these SNARC-like effects are reasonably accounted for in terms of magnitude.…”

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Snarcing with a phone: The role of order in spatial-numerical associations is revealed by context and task demands.

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Bilotta

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Previous literature on the spatial-numerical association of response codes (SNARC) effect examined which factors modulate spatial-numerical associations. Recently, the role of order in the SNARC effect has been debated, and further research is necessary to better understand its contribution. The present study investigated how the order elicited by the context of the stimuli and by task demands interact. Across three experiments, we presented numbers in the context of a mobile phone keypad, an overlearned numerical display in which the ordinal position of numbers differs from the mental number line. The experiments employed three tasks with different levels of consistency with the order elicited by the context. In Experiment 1, participants judged numbers based on their spatial position on the keypad, and we found a spatial association consistent with the keypad configuration, indicating that the spatial association is driven both by the context and by the task when they consistently elicit the same order. In Experiment 2a, participants performed a magnitude classification task, and results revealed a lack of spatial associations, suggesting a conflict between the orders elicited by the context and by the task. In Experiment 2b, participants performed a parity judgment task, and the results revealed a SNARC effect, suggesting that the order elicited by the context did not modulate the spatial association. Overall, three different tasks gave rise to three different results. This shows that the context alone is not sufficient in modulating spatial-numerical associations but that the consistency between the orders elicited by context and task demands is a key factor. Public Significance StatementHumans use spatial coordinates to mentally represent numbers. Typically, small numbers are represented on the left space and large numbers on the right space. However, the association between numbers and space is quite flexible, and previous studies showed that it could be modulated by the context in which numbers are presented. Is the context sufficient to modulate spatial-numerical associations? In the present study, we demonstrate that task demands have an important role and that the direction of the spatial-numerical association depends on the interaction between task demands and context.

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Emotional Semantic Congruency based on stimulus driven comparative judgements

Cited by 19 publications

References 138 publications

Cross-cultural evidence of a space-ethnicity association in face categorisation

Cross-cultural evidence of a space-ethnicity association in face categorisation

Slow and fast beat sequences are represented differently through space

Snarcing with a phone: The role of order in spatial-numerical associations is revealed by context and task demands.

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