creators_name: Fias, W. creators_name: Brysbaert, M. creators_name: Geypens, F. creators_name: d'Ydewalle, G. type: journalp datestamp: 2004-03-04 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:28 metadata_visibility: show title: The importance of magnitude information in numerical processing: Evidence from the SNARC effect ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: SNARC, number processing abstract: Models of the numerical cognitive system differ in the importance they attach to magnitude information in numerical processing. In this paper, the necessity of addressing a central semantic number system in arabic number processing is evaluated by looking at the SNARC-effect. This effect has been interpreted as an indication of access to the semantic system. In Experiment 1, we replicated the effect in a parity judgement task. In Experiment 2, we extended the SNARC-effect to a phoneme monitoring task, showing that magnitude information was accessed during arabic-to-verbal transcoding. We conclude, therefore, that number magnitude plays a more important role than is generally accepted. date: 1996 date_type: published publication: Mathematical Cognition volume: 2 pagerange: 95-110 refereed: TRUE citation: Fias, W. and Brysbaert, M. and Geypens, F. and d'Ydewalle, G. (1996) The importance of magnitude information in numerical processing: Evidence from the SNARC effect. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/3444/1/Fias_MathCog_96.pdf