Registered Replication Report on Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003)
Lincoln Colling; Dénes Szűcs; Damiano De Marco; Krzysztof Cipora; Rolf Ulrich; Hans‐Christoph Nuerk; Mojtaba Soltanlou; Donna Bryce · 2020 · Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
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Abstract
The attentional spatial-numerical association of response codes (Att-SNARC) effect (Fischer, Castel, Dodd, & Pratt, 2003)—the finding that participants are quicker to detect left-side targets when the targets are preceded by small numbers and quicker to detect right-side targets when they are preceded by large numbers—has been used as evidence for embodied number representations and to support strong claims about the link between number and space (e.g., a mental number line). We attempted to replicate Experiment 2 of Fischer et al. by collecting data from 1,105 participants at 17 labs. Acr
Abstract by Lincoln Colling; Dénes Szűcs; Damiano De Marco; Krzysztof Cipora; Rolf Ulrich; Hans‐Christoph Nuerk; Mojtaba Soltanlou; Donna Bryce, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2020) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1177/2515245920903079