Verbal-Spatial and Visuospatial Coding of the SNARC Effect: A Comparative Study in Cultures With Different Reading Directions.
Using the magnitude comparison task, the current study tested verbal-spatial and visuospatial coding accounts by comparing the spatial-numerical association of response codes effect in 30 Chinese-speaking and 60 bilingual Uighur Chinese participants. The experimental tasks were presented using Chinese words for 30 Chinese-speaking and 30 bilingual Uighur Chinese participants, while only Uighur words were presented to the remaining 30 bilingual Uighur Chinese participants. Overall, the results of the current study showed that verbal-spatial coding could be applied to the experimental task when presented using Chinese words, but visuospatial coding could be applied to the experimental task when presented using Uighur words. The findings demonstrated that spatial coding was flexible and depended upon the language context in which the experimental task was presented.
School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; Institute of Children's Development and Education, Huzhou University, Huzhou, China.
Mengxia
M
Li
Guizhou Provincial Party, Committee Party School of the Communist Party of China, Guiyang, China.
Hongyun
H
Lv
School of Education Science, Xinjiang Education Institute, Urumchi, China.
Ziwida
Z
Abdukerim
Institute of International and comparative education, Zhejiang Normal University, Hangzhou, China.
Yanjun
Y
Zhang
School of Education and Psychology, University of Jinan, Jinan, China.
Fuqiang
F
Qiao
School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China mxlisunny@126.com.
Qiwei
Q
Li
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055641:Mathematical Concepts; D019303:Multilingualism; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D011932:Reading; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
magnitude comparison; reading directions; the SNARC effect; verbal-spatial coding; visuospatial coding