Smaller numbers should pull your attention downward. At least, that’s what many studies on mental number lines suggested. But when Japanese researchers tested this assumption, they discovered ...

In the study by Rugani et al., chicks were tasked to locate food hidden behind the fourth bottle cap in a vertical row of 10 identical caps. Lateralisation of the brain – the tendency for the left and ...

Lateralization of the brain – the tendency for the left and right hemispheres to specialize in different functions – underlies the development of a left-to-right mental number line, according to a ...

Spatial-numerical cognition refers to the cognitive processes that underpin the representation of numerical magnitudes within a spatial framework. Often conceptualised as a ‘mental number line’, this ...