Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention

By Martin H. Fischer, Alan D. Castel, Michael D Dodd, Jay Pratt. Nature Neuroscience, 2003

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Handbook of mathematical cognition (2004, methodology): “The use of behaviorally simpler tasks such as detection (Fischer et al. 2003b) or bisection (Fischer, 2001) may reveal spatial–numerical associations even in such special populations.”
Multiple components of developmental dyscalculia (2013, background): “Related phenomena are the number attentional cueing effect (numbers act as a spatial cue in spatial attention tasks [23]) and the number bisection bias observed in hemineglect neurological patients (bias towards larger numbers when asked to indicate the midpoint between two numbers, [59]).”
Short Article: Coding Strategies in Number Space: Memory Requirements Influence Spatial–Numerical Associations (2008, positive): “Further support for the idea that merely looking at numbers evokes an activation of spatial cognitive codes is coming from a study on visual – spatial attention reported by Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003) .”
Interactions between number and space in parietal cortex (2005, background): “Even the simple presentation of a digit automatically draws attention to either the left or right visual field (LVF/RVF) according to the relative size of the numbe”
Origins and Development of Generalized Magnitude Representation (2011, background): “l In Western culture, the mental number line is oriented from left to right [110,111,147].”
The Effect of Location on Price Estimation: Understanding Number–Location and Number–Order Associations (2012, background): “Fischer et al. (2003) asked participants to respond as quickly as possible to targets that appeared either in the left or right visual field of a computer screen.”
On the Cognitive Link between Space and Number: A Meta-Analysis of the SNARC Effect (2008, background): “…the colours of coloured numerals (Caessens et al., 2001, Keus and Schwarz, 2005, Lammertyn et al., 2002), simple detection of Arabic digits (Fischer et al., 2003), arbitrary mapping of numbers to response keys (Gevers et al. 2006b), bisection of digits strings or lines flanked by Arabic…”
The Cultural Number Line: A Review of Cultural and Linguistic Influences on the Development of Number Processing (2011, background): “First, in cultures where reading is from right to left, the detection of a target on the left side should be faster after seeing a centrally presented large than small number, reversing the finding of Fischer et al. (2003).”
A new form of human spatial attention: Automated symbolic orienting (2012, neutral): “…& Iacoboni, 2009; Tipper, Handy, Giesbrecht, & Kingstone, 2008) and EEG (e.g., Schuller & Rossion, 2001), and have been used to investigate topics ranging from human emotion (e.g., Graham, Friesen, Fichtenholtz, & LaBar, 2010) to numerical processing (e.g., Fischer, Castel, Dodd, & Pratt, 2003).”