Advanced search
Publication Cover
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Volume 66, 2013 - Issue 10
Journal homepage
583
Views
72
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Regular articles

Is the SNARC effect related to the level of mathematics? No systematic relationship observed despite more power, more repetitions, and more direct assessment of arithmetic skill

Krzysztof CiporaInstitute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PolandCorrespondence[email protected]
&
Hans-Christoph NuerkDepartment of Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany;Knowledge Media Research Center, IWM-KMRC, Tuebingen, Germany
Pages 1974-1991 | Received 25 Jan 2012, Published online: 08 Mar 2013

Citations (72)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (6)

Helen Branyan, Elisheva Cooper, Samuel Shaki & Koleen McCrink. (2023) Ordinality and Verbal Framing Influence Preschoolers’ Memory for Spatial Structure. Journal of Cognition and Development 24:1, pages 142-159.
Read now
Carrie Georges, Christine Schiltz & Danielle Hoffmann. (2015) Task instructions determine the visuospatial and verbal–spatial nature of number–space associations. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 68:9, pages 1895-1909.
Read now
Katarzyna Patro, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Ulrike Cress. (2015) Does your body count? Embodied influences on the preferred counting direction of preschoolers. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 27:4, pages 413-425.
Read now
Martin H. Fischer & Samuel Shaki. (2014) Spatial associations in numerical cognition—From single digits to arithmetic. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 67:8, pages 1461-1483.
Read now
Tyler Marghetis, Rafael Núñez & Benjamin K. Bergen. (2014) Doing arithmetic by hand: Hand movements during exact arithmetic reveal systematic, dynamic spatial processing. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 67:8, pages 1579-1596.
Read now
Tanja Link, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Korbinian Moeller. (2014) On the relation between the mental number line and arithmetic competencies. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 67:8, pages 1597-1613.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (66)

Andreas Schliephake, Julia Bahnmueller, Klaus Willmes, Iring Koch & Korbinian Moeller. (2023) Influences of cognitive control on number processing: New evidence from switching between two numerical tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 76:11, pages 2514-2523.
Crossref
Mateusz Hohol, Kinga Wołoszyn & Krzysztof Cipora. (2022) No fingers, no SNARC? Neither the finger counting starting hand, nor its stability robustly affect the SNARC effect. Acta Psychologica 230, pages 103765.
Crossref
Rosa Rugani, Yujia Zhang, Nuwar Ahmed & Elizabeth Brannon. (2022) Children perform better on left than right targets in an ordinal task. Acta Psychologica 226, pages 103560.
Crossref
Małgorzata Gut, Katarzyna Mańkowska, Jakub Słupczewski & Jacek Matulewski. (2022) Heterogeneity of Dyscalculia Risk Dependent on the Type of Number Line Estimation Task and the Number Magnitude. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19:10, pages 6164.
Crossref
Dominique Lopiccolo & Charles B. Chang. (2021) Cultural factors weaken but do not reverse left-to-right spatial biases in numerosity processing: Data from Arabic and English monoliterates and Arabic-English biliterates. PLOS ONE 16:12, pages e0261146.
Crossref
Xingcheng He, Pengpeng Guo, Shuyi Li, Xiaojing Shen & Xinlin Zhou. (2021) Non-symbolic and symbolic number lines are dissociated. Cognitive Processing 22:3, pages 475-486.
Crossref
Mohammad Ali Nazari, Saied Sabaghypour, Mina Pezhmanfard, Kiana Azizi & Shahram Vahedi. (2020) The influence of children’s mathematical competence on performance in mental number line, time knowledge and time perception. Psychological Research 85:5, pages 2023-2035.
Crossref
Yunfeng He, Hans- Christoph Nuerk, Alexander Derksen, Jiannong Shi, Xinlin Zhou & Krzysztof Cipora. (2020) A gifted SNARC? Directional spatial–numerical associations in gifted children with high-level math skills do not differ from controls. Psychological Research 85:4, pages 1645-1661.
Crossref
M.I. Núñez-Peña, À. Colomé & B. González-Gómez. (2021) The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect in highly math-anxious individuals: An ERP study. Biological Psychology 161, pages 108062.
Crossref
Carrie Georges & Christine Schiltz. (2021) Number line tasks and their relation to arithmetics in second to fourth graders. Journal of Numerical Cognition 7:1, pages 20-41.
Crossref
Krzysztof Cipora, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Stefan Smaczny, Silke M. Göbel & Hans-Christoph Nuerk. (2019) Automatic place-value activation in magnitude-irrelevant parity judgement. Psychological Research 85:2, pages 777-792.
Crossref
Sonia Y. Cárdenas, Juan Silva-Pereyra, Belén Prieto-Corona, Susana A. Castro-Chavira & Thalía Fernández. (2021) Arithmetic processing in children with dyscalculia: an event-related potential study. PeerJ 9, pages e10489.
Crossref
Krzysztof Cipora, Yunfeng He & Hans‐Christoph Nuerk. (2020) The spatial–numerical association of response codes effect and math skills: why related?. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1477:1, pages 5-19.
Crossref
Mateusz Hohol, Klaus Willmes, Edward Nęcka, Bartosz Brożek, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Krzysztof Cipora. (2020) Professional mathematicians do not differ from others in the symbolic numerical distance and size effects. Scientific Reports 10:1.
Crossref
Elisa Di Giorgio, Marco Lunghi, Rosa Rugani, Lucia Regolin, Beatrice Dalla Barba, Giorgio Vallortigara & Francesca Simion. (2019) A mental number line in human newborns. Developmental Science 22:6.
Crossref
Elizabeth Y. Toomarian, Radhika S. Gosavi & Edward M. Hubbard. (2019) Implicit and explicit spatial-numerical representations diverge in number-form synesthetes. Consciousness and Cognition 75, pages 102806.
Crossref
Alexandra Pressigout, Agnès Charvillat, Karima Mersad & Karine Doré-Mazars. (2018) Time dependency of the SNARC effect for different number formats: evidence from saccadic responses. Psychological Research 83:7, pages 1485-1495.
Crossref
Krzysztof Cipora, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Ulf-Dietrich Reips & Hans-Christoph Nuerk. (2019) The SNARC and MARC effects measured online: Large-scale assessment methods in flexible cognitive effects. Behavior Research Methods 51:4, pages 1676-1692.
Crossref
Martin Lachmair, Ulrike Cress, Tim Fissler, Simone Kurek, Jan Leininger & Hans-Christoph Nuerk. (2017) Music-space associations are grounded, embodied and situated: examination of cello experts and non-musicians in a standard tone discrimination task. Psychological Research 83:5, pages 894-906.
Crossref
Daniele Didino, Christina Breil & André Knops. (2019) The influence of semantic processing and response latency on the SNARC effect. Acta Psychologica 196, pages 75-86.
Crossref
Elizabeth Y. Toomarian, Rui Meng & Edward M. Hubbard. (2019) Individual Differences in Implicit and Explicit Spatial Processing of Fractions. Frontiers in Psychology 10.
Crossref
Sabrina Brigadoi, Sara Basso Moro, Roberta Falchi, Simone Cutini & Roberto Dell’Acqua. (2018) On pacing trials while scanning brain hemodynamics: The case of the SNARC effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 25:6, pages 2267-2273.
Crossref
Mateusz Hohol, Kinga Wołoszyn, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Krzysztof Cipora. (2018) A large-scale survey on finger counting routines, their temporal stability and flexibility in educated adults. PeerJ 6, pages e5878.
Crossref
Tina Weis, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Thomas Lachmann. (2018) Attention allows the SNARC effect to operate on multiple number lines. Scientific Reports 8:1.
Crossref
Fiona Nemeh, Judi Humberstone, Mark J. Yates & Robert A. Reeve. (2018) Non-symbolic magnitudes are represented spatially: Evidence from a non-symbolic SNARC task. PLOS ONE 13:8, pages e0203019.
Crossref
Peter Kramer, Paola Bressan & Massimo Grassi. (2018) The SNARC effect is associated with worse mathematical intelligence and poorer time estimation. Royal Society Open Science 5:8, pages 172362.
Crossref
Elizabeth Y Toomarian & Edward M Hubbard. (2018) The fractions SNARC revisited: Processing fractions on a consistent mental number line. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 71:8, pages 1761-1770.
Crossref
Lauren S. Aulet & Stella F. Lourenco. (2018) The Developing Mental Number Line: Does Its Directionality Relate to 5- to 7-Year-Old Children’s Mathematical Abilities?. Frontiers in Psychology 9.
Crossref
Lia Heubner, Krzysztof Cipora, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Marie-Lene Schlenker, Katarzyna Lipowska, Silke M. Göbel, Frank Domahs, Maciej Haman & Hans-Christoph Nuerk. (2018) A Mental Odd-Even Continuum Account: Some Numbers May Be “More Odd” Than Others and Some Numbers May Be “More Even” Than Others. Frontiers in Psychology 9.
Crossref
Zhijun Deng, Yinghe Chen, Meng Zhang, Yanjun Li & Xiaoshuang Zhu. (2018) The Association of Number and Space Under Different Tasks: Insight From a Process Perspective. Frontiers in Psychology 9.
Crossref
Carrie Georges, Danielle Hoffmann & Christine Schiltz. (2018) Implicit and Explicit Number-Space Associations Differentially Relate to Interference Control in Young Adults With ADHD. Frontiers in Psychology 9.
Crossref
Sara Basso Moro, Roberto Dell’Acqua & Simone Cutini. (2017) The SNARC effect is not a unitary phenomenon. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 25:2, pages 688-695.
Crossref
Francesco Sella, Charlotte Hartwright & Roi Cohen Kadosh. 2018. Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience 1 47 .
Anne Macnamara, Hannah A. D. Keage & Tobias Loetscher. (2017) Mapping of non-numerical domains on space: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Experimental Brain Research 236:2, pages 335-346.
Crossref
Silke M. Göbel. 2018. Language and Culture in Mathematical Cognition. Language and Culture in Mathematical Cognition 229 256 .
Wim Fias & Mario Bonato. 2018. Heterogeneity of Function in Numerical Cognition. Heterogeneity of Function in Numerical Cognition 233 242 .
Stella F. Lourenco, Chi-Ngai Cheung & Lauren S. Aulet. 2018. Heterogeneity of Function in Numerical Cognition. Heterogeneity of Function in Numerical Cognition 177 210 .
Marc Brysbaert. 2018. Heterogeneity of Function in Numerical Cognition. Heterogeneity of Function in Numerical Cognition 3 26 .
Krzysztof Cipora, Philipp Alexander Schroeder, Mojtaba Soltanlou & Hans-Christoph Nuerk. 2018. Visualizing Mathematics. Visualizing Mathematics 77 116 .
Krzysztof Cipora, Philipp A. Schroeder & Hans-Christoph Nuerk. 2018. Visualizing Mathematics. Visualizing Mathematics 361 370 .
Carrie Georges, Danielle Hoffmann & Christine Schiltz. (2017) How and why do number-space associations co-vary in implicit and explicit magnitude processing tasks?. Journal of Numerical Cognition 3:2, pages 182-211.
Crossref
Philipp Alexander Schroeder, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Christian Plewnia. (2017) Space in numerical and ordinal information: A common construct?. Journal of Numerical Cognition 3:2, pages 164-181.
Crossref
Ram Naaman & Liat Goldfarb. (2017) The Influence of Gain and Loss on Arithmetic Performance. Frontiers in Psychology 8.
Crossref
Philipp A. Schroeder, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Christian Plewnia. (2017) Switching between Multiple Codes of SNARC-Like Associations: Two Conceptual Replication Attempts with Anodal tDCS in Sham-Controlled Cross-Over Design. Frontiers in Neuroscience 11.
Crossref
Carrie Georges, Danielle Hoffmann & Christine Schiltz. (2017) Mathematical abilities in elementary school: Do they relate to number–space associations?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 161, pages 126-147.
Crossref
Philipp Alexander Schroeder, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Christian Plewnia. (2017) Prefrontal neuromodulation reverses spatial associations of non-numerical sequences, but not numbers. Biological Psychology 128, pages 39-49.
Crossref
Manuel Ninaus, Korbinian Moeller, Liane Kaufmann, Martin H. Fischer, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Guilherme Wood. (2017) Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Directional and Non-directional Spatial-Numerical Associations across the Lifespan. Frontiers in Psychology 8.
Crossref
Krzysztof Cipora & Guilherme Wood. (2017) Finding the SNARC Instead of Hunting It: A 20∗20 Monte Carlo Investigation. Frontiers in Psychology 8.
Crossref
Mateusz Hohol, Krzysztof Cipora, Klaus Willmes & Hans-Christoph Nuerk. (2017) Bringing Back the Balance: Domain-General Processes Are Also Important in Numerical Cognition. Frontiers in Psychology 8.
Crossref
Antonia Fumarola, Valter Prpic, Deanna Fornasier, Flavio Sartoretto, Tiziano Agostini & Carlo Umiltà. (2016) The Spatial Representation of Angles. Perception 45:11, pages 1320-1330.
Crossref
Philipp Alexander Schroeder, Roland Pfister, Wilfried Kunde, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Christian Plewnia. (2016) Counteracting Implicit Conflicts by Electrical Inhibition of the Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 28:11, pages 1737-1748.
Crossref
Laura C. Gibson & Daphne Maurer. (2016) Development of SNARC and distance effects and their relation to mathematical and visuospatial abilities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 150, pages 301-313.
Crossref
Carrie Georges, Danielle Hoffmann & Christine Schiltz. (2016) How Math Anxiety Relates to Number–Space Associations. Frontiers in Psychology 07.
Crossref
Krzysztof Cipora, Mateusz Hohol, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Klaus Willmes, Bartosz Brożek, Bartłomiej Kucharzyk & Edward Nęcka. (2015) Professional mathematicians differ from controls in their spatial-numerical associations. Psychological Research 80:4, pages 710-726.
Crossref
Stefan Huber, Elise Klein, Korbinian Moeller & Klaus Willmes. (2016) Spatial–Numerical and Ordinal Positional Associations Coexist in Parallel. Frontiers in Psychology 7.
Crossref
Wojciech Krysztofiak. (2015) Representational Structures of Arithmetical Thinking: Part I. Axiomathes 26:1, pages 1-40.
Crossref
Katarzyna Patro, Ursula Fischer, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Ulrike Cress. (2016) How to rapidly construct a spatial-numerical representation in preliterate children (at least temporarily). Developmental Science 19:1, pages 126-144.
Crossref
Krzysztof Cipora, Katarzyna Patro & Hans-Christoph Nuerk. (2015) Are Spatial-Numerical Associations a Cornerstone for Arithmetic Learning? The Lack of Genuine Correlations Suggests No. Mind, Brain, and Education 9:4, pages 190-206.
Crossref
Enrico Fattorini, Mario Pinto, Francesca Rotondaro & Fabrizio Doricchi. (2015) Perceiving numbers does not cause automatic shifts of spatial attention. Cortex 73, pages 298-316.
Crossref
Krzysztof Cipora, Monika Szczygieł, Klaus Willmes & Hans-Christoph Nuerk. (2015) Math Anxiety Assessment with the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale: Applicability and Usefulness: Insights from the Polish Adaptation. Frontiers in Psychology 6.
Crossref
Tina Weis, Barbara Estner, Christoph M. Krick, Wolfgang Reith & Thomas Lachmann. (2015) SNARC meets SPARC in fMRI—Interdependence of compatibility effects depends on semantic content. Neuropsychologia 77, pages 331-338.
Crossref
Korbinian Moeller, Ursula Fischer, Hans-Christoph Nuerk & Ulrike Cress. (2015) Computers in mathematics education – Training the mental number line. Computers in Human Behavior 48, pages 597-607.
Crossref
Bodo Winter, Tyler Marghetis & Teenie Matlock. (2015) Of magnitudes and metaphors: Explaining cognitive interactions between space, time, and number. Cortex 64, pages 209-224.
Crossref
Kiki Zanolie & Diane Pecher. (2014) Number-induced shifts in spatial attention: a replication study. Frontiers in Psychology 5.
Crossref
Tanja Link, Eva Johanna Schwarz, Stefan Huber, Ursula Fischer, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Ulrike Cress & Korbinian Moeller. (2014) Mathe mit der Matte – Verkörperlichtes Training basisnumerischer KompetenzenMaths on the mat: embodied training of basic numerical competencies. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft 17:2, pages 257-277.
Crossref
Danielle Hoffmann, Christophe Mussolin, Romain Martin & Christine Schiltz. (2014) The Impact of Mathematical Proficiency on the Number-Space Association. PLoS ONE 9:1, pages e85048.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.