Samuel Shaki

Biographic Data

ID188043
NAMESamuel Shaki
GIVEN NAMESSamuel
FAMILY NAMEShaki
SIGNATURESHAKI S
AFFILIATIONSAriel University
ORCID0000-0002-2340-5401
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Anchoring bias in mental arithmetic

    Open AccessSamuel Shaki, Martin H FischerARTICLEPsychological Research2025

  • Number to me, space to you: Joint representation of spatial-numerical associations

    Open AccessStefania D’Ascenzo, Martin H Fischer et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2022

    Recent work has shown that number concepts activate both spatial and magnitude representations. According to the social co-representation literature which has shown that participants typically represent task components assigned to others together with their own, we asked whether explicit magnitude meaning and explicit spatial coding must be present in a single mind, or can be distributed across two minds, to generate a spatial-numerical congruenc…

  • Abstract concepts: External influences, internal constraints, and methodological issues

    Open AccessAnna M Borghi, Samuel Shaki et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2022

    There is a longstanding and widely held misconception about the relative remoteness of abstract concepts from concrete experiences. This review examines the current evidence for external influences and internal constraints on the processing, representation, and use of abstract concepts, like truth, friendship, and number . We highlight the theoretical benefit of distinguishing between grounded and embodied cognition and then ask which roles do pe…

  • Grounding (fairly) complex numerical knowledge: An educational example

    Open AccessMartin H Fischer, Arthur Glenberg et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2022

  • Systematic spatial distortion of quantitative estimates

    Open AccessSamuel Shaki, Martin H FischerARTICLEPsychological Research2021

    Magnitude estimation has been studied since the beginnings of scientific psychology and constitutes a fundamental aspect of human behavior. Yet, it has apparently never been noticed that estimates depend on the spatial arrangement used. We tested 167 adults in three experiments to show that the spatial layout of stimuli and responses systematically distorts number estimation, length production, and weight reproduction performance. The direction o…

  • Unstable world: Recent experience affects spatial perception

    Open AccessEmily Rosenich, Samuel Shaki et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2020

  • The Cultural Number Line: A Review of Cultural and Linguistic Influences on the Development of Number Processing

    Open AccessSilke M Göbel, Samuel Shaki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2011

    Approximate processing of numerosities is a universal and preverbal skill, while exact number processing above 4 involves the use of culturally acquired number words and symbols. The authors first review core concepts of numerical cognition, including number representation in the brain and the influential view that numbers are associated with space along a “mental number line.” Then, they discuss how cultural influences, such as reading direction…

  • Cultural Characteristics Dissociate Magnitude and Ordinal Information Processing

    Open AccessSamuel Shaki, Wim GeversARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2011References: 24

    The SNARC effect reflects an association between the processing of quantity information and the side of response. A close relationship has been demonstrated between the direction of this association (SNARC effect) and reading direction habit. In the present study, the authors investigated the relationship between processing of magnitude and ordinal information processing. In the first experiment, bilingual Hebrew-English participants judged the o…

  • Cultural Effects on the Mental Number Line

    Open AccessSilke M Göbel, Samuel Shaki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2011

    This special issue is the result of a workshop on the cultural effects on the mental number line held in York (U.K.) in July 2009. The workshop was funded by the Experimental Psychology Society (www.eps.ac.uk) and the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (www.escop.eu), and we thank both organisations for sponsoring the event. The aims of the workshop were to bring together experimental psychologists who study effects of cultural variables o…

  • Reading habits for both words and numbers contribute to the SNARC effect

    Open AccessSamuel Shaki, Martin H Fischer et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2009