{"pk":26355,"title":"The Effect of Emotion and Induced Arousal on Numerical Processing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Prominent theories suggest that time and number arerepresented by a common magnitude system. However,distinct patterns of temporal and numerical processingoccur in the presence of emotional stimuli, calling intoquestion theories of a common magnitude system, whilealso unveiling questions regarding the mechanismsunderlying these temporal and numerical biases. Wetested whether numerical processing, like temporalprocessing, may be impacted by increased arousal levels,yet have a higher threshold level in order to impactestimates. If so, then induced arousal may reverse thetypical pattern of numerical underestimation in thepresence of emotions. Adults (N = 85) participated ineither a stress-induction or a control version of the task.Then, participants completed a numerical bisection task inthe presence and absence of emotional content. Increasingarousal had no impact on numerical processing, except inthe presence of happy faces, providing further evidencefor distinct processing mechanisms.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"quantity processing; numerical cognition;temporal processing; emotion; stress"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wc1q8f2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Karina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hamamouche","name_suffix":"","institution":"Boston College","department":""},{"first_name":"Michelle","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hurst","name_suffix":"","institution":"Boston College","department":""},{"first_name":"Sara","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cordes","name_suffix":"","institution":"Boston College","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26355/galley/15991/download/"}]}