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@misc{cogprints3444, volume = {2}, title = {The importance of magnitude information in numerical processing: Evidence from the SNARC effect}, author = {W. Fias and M. Brysbaert and F. Geypens and G. d'Ydewalle}, year = {1996}, pages = {95--110}, journal = {Mathematical Cognition}, keywords = {SNARC, number processing}, url = {http://cogprints.org/3444/}, 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.} }