Previtali, P. 1 , Ginsburg, V. 2 , Vermeiren, A. 2 , Van Dijck, J. 3 & Gevers, W. 2
1 (1) Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
2 (2) Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
3 Ghent University, Belgium
A well studied indication of the correspondence between numbers and space is the SNARC effect, the observation of an association between small numbers and the left hand side and between large numbers and the right hand side. Recently, a working memory account for these spatial numerical associations was proposed (Van Dijck & Fias, 2011). This account holds that the associations between numbers and space are short term representations that are build during task execution. The aim of our study was to test this assumption. A number of experiments are discussed that illustrate different aspects of the working memory account.