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%A W. Fias %A M. Brysbaert %A F. Geypens %A G. d'Ydewalle %J Mathematical Cognition %T The importance of magnitude information in numerical processing: Evidence from the SNARC effect %X 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. %K SNARC, number processing %P 95-110 %V 2 %D 1996 %L cogprints3444