Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (4): 394-400.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.04.02

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The Impact of Luminance on the Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes

CAO Bihua1, HUANG Xiaomei1, YANG Li2, LI Hong3, LI Fuhong1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022;
    2. School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029;
    3. College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060
  • Online:2017-07-15 Published:2017-07-15

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Abstract: The present study aimed to explore whether the luminance could affect the numerical spatial representation, index of the Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect. All participants were asked to make a parity judgment task, which the stimuli consisted of Arabic digits from 1 to 9 (except for 5) on the black background in three experiments. In Experiment 1, the digits were printed in the highest luminance value (255). In line with previous studies, the SNARC effect was found in this study. Left-hand responses were faster for the small relative to large numbers, whereas the right-hand responses were faster for the large relative to small numbers. Experiment 2 designed two higher luminance values of the numbers (255 vs. 213). Results demonstrated that the SNARC effects were both found for two luminance conditions. In Experiment 3, high and low luminance values (213 vs. 42) of digits were designed. The results indicated the SNARC effect disappeared, even if the luminance value was the same as experiment 2 (213). These findings suggested that luminance would promote or inhibit the numerical spatial representation, which might be related to the luminance contrast values and the cognitive resources consumed.

Key words: numerical spatial representation, luminance contrast, SNARC effect, automatic processing

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