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Finger posing primes number comprehension

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Title
Finger posing primes number comprehension
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Cognitive Processing, April 2017
DOI 10.1007/s10339-017-0804-y
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Elena Sixtus, Martin H. Fischer, Oliver Lindemann

Abstract

Canonical finger postures, as used in counting, activate number knowledge, but the exact mechanism for this priming effect is unclear. Here we dissociated effects of visual versus motor priming of number concepts. In Experiment 1, participants were exposed either to pictures of canonical finger postures (visual priming) or actively produced the same finger postures (motor priming) and then used foot responses to rapidly classify auditory numbers (targets) as smaller or larger than 5. Classification times revealed that manually adopted but not visually perceived postures primed magnitude classifications. Experiment 2 obtained motor priming of number processing through finger postures also with vocal responses. Priming only occurred through canonical and not through non-canonical finger postures. Together, these results provide clear evidence for motor priming of number knowledge. Relative contributions of vision and action for embodied numerical cognition and the importance of canonicity of postures are discussed.

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Country Count As %
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 44 98%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 18%
Researcher 6 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 10 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 21 47%
Neuroscience 2 4%
Linguistics 2 4%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 12 27%
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