Shaki Samuel, Fischer Martin H, Petrusic William M
Ariel University Center of Samaria, Ariel, Israel.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2009 Apr;16(2):328-31. doi: 10.3758/PBR.16.2.328.
This study compared the spatial representation of numbers in three groups of adults: Canadians, who read both English words and Arabic numbers from left to right; Palestinians, who read Arabic words and Arabic-Indic numbers from right to left; and Israelis, who read Hebrew words from right to left but Arabic numbers from left to right. Canadians associated small numbers with left and large numbers with right space (the SNARC effect), Palestinians showed the reverse association, and Israelis had no reliable spatial association for numbers. These results suggest that reading habits for both words and numbers contribute to the spatial representation of numbers.
加拿大人，他们从左至右阅读英语单词和阿拉伯数字；巴勒斯坦人，他们从右至左阅读阿拉伯语单词和阿拉伯-印度数字；以色列人，他们从右至左阅读希伯来语单词，但从左至右阅读阿拉伯数字。加拿大人将较小数字与左侧空间相关联，较大数字与右侧空间相关联（空间数字反应编码联合效应），巴勒斯坦人表现出相反的关联，而以色列人对数字没有可靠的空间关联。这些结果表明，单词和数字的阅读习惯都有助于数字的空间表征。
