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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • The symbolic distance effect (SDE) demonstrates faster, more accurate responses with greater
  • distance

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate spatial contributions to analog representations of rank orders.
  • Explore laterality and anchoring effects in transitive reasoning.

Main Methods:

  • Introduced anchoring paradigms linking screen presentation location to mental space.
  • Analyzed response advantages for congruent versus incongruent spatial-behavioral pairings.

Main Results:

  • Laterality effects provide additional support for spatial processes in transitive reasoning.
  • Anchoring effects reveal response advantages based on spatial congruence.

Conclusions:

  • Spatial processes, including laterality and anchoring, play a role in transitive reasoning and rank order construction.
  • Findings support spatial interpretations of the symbolic distance effect.