Effect of spatial training on space-number mapping: a situated cognition account
Psychological Research. 2025-01-20; 89(1):
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02078-4
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Lenoir J(1), Badets A(2).
Author information:
(1)Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, INCIA – Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et
Intégratives d’Aquitaine, UMR 5287, Bâtiment Bordeaux Biologie Santé (BBS), 2,
rue du Dr Hoffmann Martinot, 33000, Bordeaux, France.
(2)Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, INCIA – Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et
Intégratives d’Aquitaine, UMR 5287, Bâtiment Bordeaux Biologie Santé (BBS), 2,
rue du Dr Hoffmann Martinot, 33000, Bordeaux, France.
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From an embodied perspective of cognition, number processing influences the
spatial organization of motor responses showing faster left/right responses to
small/large numbers. Recent evidence suggests that such spatial-numerical
associations (SNAs) along the transverse and sagittal planes are mutually
exclusive with respect to the spatial reference frames used by the participant.
Specifically, in egocentric and allocentric frames, SNAs appear along the
sagittal and transverse plane, respectively. The first aim of this study was to
replicate previous findings. The second aim was to explore the role of switching
spatial reference frames in SNAs occurrence according to the processed plane.
Consequently, during a referential frame switching (RFS) training, participants
were required to identify targets based on an embodied avatar’s perspective.
Using a random number generation (RNG) task after observing an avatar’s
displacement, we investigated the effect of RFS training on SNAs organization
across the different planes (Experiment 1 & 2 for the egocentric and allocentric
perspectives, respectively). Both experiments replicated previous results, but
more importantly, RFS training enables the development of new situated cognition
strategies from egocentric perspectives and the generalization of transverse
SNAs to other planes from allocentric perspectives.
© 2025. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany,
part of Springer Nature.
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02078-4
PMID: 39833591 [Indexed for MEDLINE]
Conflict of interest statement: Declarations. Conflict of interest: The authors
declare no competing interests. Ethical approval: Informed consent was obtained
from all participants. The study was conducted in accordance with the
declaration of Helsinki and was conformed to the institutional review board of
the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (approval number ID-RCB:
2018-A02426-49).