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The contributions of non-numeric dimensions to number encoding, representations, and decision-making factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2017

Darko Odic
Darko Odic*
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada darko.odic@psych.ubc.ca http://www.odic.psych.ubc.ca
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Abstract

Leibovich et al. suggest that congruency effects in number perception (biases towards smaller, denser, etc., dots) are evidence for the number's dependence on these dimensions. I argue that they fail to differentiate between effects at three distinct levels of number perception – encoding, representations, and decision making – and that differentiating between these allows the number to be independent from, but correlated with, non-numeric dimensions.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e182
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