The mental representation of integers: Further evidence for the negative number line as a reflection of the natural number line
Volume: 43, Issue: 43
Published: Jan 1, 2021
Abstract
Author(s): Vest, Nicholas; Alibali, Martha W | Abstract: Humans are able to make sense of extraordinarily abstract concepts in mathematics (e.g., negative numbers). What is the underlying representation of these concepts? Integers extend natural numbers by including zero and negative numbers. To study the mental representation of integers, we employed a number comparison task in an online context. We replicated the previously-reported distance...
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