Number generation bias after action observation

Badets, Arnaud; Bouquet, Cédric A.; Ric, François; Pesenti, Mauro

doi:10.1007/s00221-012-3145-1

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“…Hence, we can claim that the congruency effect obtained in Experiment 1 was motoric rather than spatial and/or perceptual. This finding is in line with the studies which demonstrate a motor-to-semantic effect, that is a consistent influence of the motor processes over the semantic ones [21] [22] [23] [37].…”

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“…Further studies demonstrated a bidirectional relation between numbers processing and action-related processes (i.e., motor-to-semantic effect, [21] ]23]). More specifically, the motor-to-semantic effect revealed a facilitation, in terms of response latencies, when participants observed a closing grip posture of a biological hand and had to generate small numbers.…”

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“…More specifically, the motor-to-semantic effect revealed a facilitation, in terms of response latencies, when participants observed a closing grip posture of a biological hand and had to generate small numbers. Badets et al [21] claimed that the “motor-to-semantic effect is assumed to come from the action system of the participant who either actively performs an action or passively experience a motion and generates a number after” ( ibidem , p. 2). Other studies have investigated the influence of the specific body parts' movements, such as head positions [24] or ocular saccades [25], on the generation of small numbers.…”

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Several studies suggest that numerical and spatial representations are intrinsically linked. Recent findings demonstrate that also motor actions interact with number magnitude processing, showing a motor-to-semantic effect. The current study assesses whether calculation processes can be modulated by motions performed with the whole body. Participants were required to make additions or subtractions while performing (on-line condition) or after having experienced (off-line condition) an ascending or descending motion through a passive (i.e., taking the elevator) or an active (i.e., taking the stairs) mode. Results show a congruency effect between the type of calculation and the direction of the motion depending on: a) the off-line or on-line condition, b) the passive or active mode and c) the real or imagined task. Implications of the results for an embodied and grounded perspective view will be discussed.

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“…Adapted for the theory of perceptual resonance, the perception of relevant features in the environment from a teacher's action can afford more efficiently related abstract semantics, which represent core information in human culture. To support this hypothesis, we recently revealed that the observation of a finger-grip closing enhanced the enumeration of small numbers during a random number generation task (Badets et al 2012). For a cultural invention like arithmetic, we revealed the same perceptual mechanism .…”

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The parental brain: A neural framework for study of teaching in humans and other animals

Kim¹,

Torres-Garcia²,

Swain

2015

Behav Brain Sci

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Parenting, conceptualized as a specific form of teaching, may inform mentalistic, culture-based, and functional definitions. Combined brain-imaging, hormone-measurement, and cognitive-behavioral analyses indicate the importance of mentalization circuits. These circuits appear to function according to culture, and cross animal species. Further, these approaches shed light on sex differences through work on fathers as well as mothers, are affected by psychopathology, and may be amenable to treatment in ways that may be applied to optimize teaching.

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“…For example, Heinemann, Pfister, and Janczyk (2013) found that number choices in a random generation task can be influenced by auditory information: Smaller digits were produced after a quieter tone was played and larger digits after a louder tone. Similarly, Badets, Bouquet, Ric, and Pesenti (2012) showed that the magnitude of randomly generated numbers can be affected by an unrelated hand prime of varying aperture (large vs. small). Also, a study by Seno, Taya, Ito, and Sunaga (2011) showed that participants' number choices can be biased by previously established temporal (future vs. past) primes.…”

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Random word generation reveals spatial encoding of syllabic word length

Myachykov

Chapman

Beal

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British J of Psychology

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Existing random number generation studies demonstrate the presence of an embodied attentional bias in spontaneous number production corresponding to the horizontal Mental Number Line: Larger numbers are produced on right‐hand turns and smaller numbers on left‐hand turns (Loetscher et al.,2008, Curr. Biol., 18, R60). Furthermore, other concepts were also shown to rely on horizontal attentional displacement (Di Bono and Zorzi, 2013, Quart. J. Exp. Psychol., 66, 2348). In two experiments, we used a novel random word generation paradigm combined with two different ways to orient attention in horizontal space: Participants randomly generated words on left and right head turns (Experiment 1) or following left and right key presses (Experiment 2). In both studies, syllabically longer words were generated on right‐hand head turns and following right key strokes. Importantly, variables related to semantic magnitude or cardinality (whether the generated words were plural‐marked, referred to uncountable concepts, or were associated with largeness) were not affected by lateral manipulations. We discuss our data in terms of the ATOM (Walsh, 2015, The Oxford handbook of numerical cognition, 552) which suggests a general magnitude mechanism shared by different conceptual domains.

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Number generation bias after action observation

Cited by 29 publications

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Counting Is Easier while Experiencing a Congruent Motion

Counting Is Easier while Experiencing a Congruent Motion

The parental brain: A neural framework for study of teaching in humans and other animals

Random word generation reveals spatial encoding of syllabic word length

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