Mauro Murgia
Biographic Data
| ID | 5854692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mauro Murgia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mauro |
| FAMILY NAME | Murgia |
| SIGNATURE | MURGIA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trieste |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8450-1157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Explicit and implicit spatial mapping of face age
Time is often conceptualised in spatial terms. For example, concepts such as ‘before’ and ‘after’ are frequently mapped onto the left and right sides of space, respectively. Importantly, such spatial mapping typically disappears when time is processed as a task-irrelevant dimension. In the present study, we further investigated this phenomenon using highly salient and socially relevant stimuli: human faces varying in age. We conducted two experim…
Ace in the hole
The SNARC effect indicates that numbers are mapped from left to right as in a mental number line. Accumulating evidence suggests that it could be attributed both to the magnitude or to the order of numbers, but the role of these two aspects has not yet been disambiguated since the two are tightly correlated. This study investigated the influence of order and magnitude in the SNARC effect using playing cards as stimuli. While most people organize …
Emotion meets attention
In the Posner cueing task for exogenous attention orientation, spatial correspondence between the lateralized cue and target is beneficial under conditions of short asynchrony. How such a benefit is modulated by target qualia, like faces expressing either the most positive (happy relative to angry faces in Experiment 1, as well as neutral relative to angry faces in the negative group of Experiment 2) or negative (neutral relative to happy faces i…
Number magnitude affects spatial decisions
The Spatial-Numerical Association effects describe the spatial relationship between number magnitude and response side, with small numbers usually associated with left sided responses and large numbers with right sided responses. Typically, these effects are demonstrated using response time differences in simple key press tasks, where participants are required to process the magnitude (magnitude classification task) or parity (parity judgement ta…
Unravelling the small number bias
When asked to produce random numbers individuals generate more small numbers than large ones, a phenomenon known as “Small Number Bias” (SNB; Loetscher & Brugger, 2007). This bias has been associated with a spatial preference known as “pseudoneglect,” where attention is biased towards the left side of the mental number line during numerical processing (Loetscher & Brugger, 2009). Another potential explanation for SNB is the higher frequency of us…
It’s SNARC o’ clock
The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect consists in faster left-/right-key responses to small/large numbers. (Bächtold et al., Neuropsychologia 36:731–735, 1998) reported the reversal of this effect after eliciting the context of a clockface—where small numbers are represented on the right and large numbers on the left. The present study investigates how the salience of a particular spatial-numerical context, which refl…
Contrasting symbolic and non-symbolic numerical representations in a joint classification task
Both symbolic (digits) and non-symbolic (dots) numerals are spatially coded, with relatively small numbers being responded faster with a left key and large numbers being responded faster with a right key (spatial–numerical association of response codes [SNARC]). The idea of format independent SNARC seems to support the existence of a common system for symbolic and non-symbolic numerical representations, although evidence in the field is still mix…
Attentional capture in emotion comparison is orientation independent
Recent findings on emotion comparison show a typical pattern of motor reactivity rising from attentional capture. When pairs of emotional faces are presented simultaneously, the most intense emotional face is recognized faster (Emotional Semantic Congruency—ESC effect). Furthermore, a global response speed advantage for emotional pairs with positive rather than negative average emotion intensity is observed (i.e., emotional size effect), with the…
Large as being on top of the world and small as hitting the roof
The influence of encoding and testing directions on retrieval of spatial information in explored and described environments
The verbal descriptions of an environment elicit a spatial mental model, in which the linear disposition of the described objects might be related to the properties of the description. In particular the direction from which the environment is encoded might shape the spatial mental model, as a consequence of a cultural bias in reading and writing direction. The aim of the present study was to examine the influence of the direction in which objects…
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The influence of encoding and testing directions on retrieval of spatial information in explored and described environments
The verbal descriptions of an environment elicit a spatial mental model, in which the linear disposition of the described objects might be related to the properties of the description. In particular the direction from which the environment is encoded might shape the spatial mental model, as a consequence of a cultural bias in reading and writing direction. The aim of the present study was to examine the influence of the direction in which objects…
Large as being on top of the world and small as hitting the roof
Contrasting symbolic and non-symbolic numerical representations in a joint classification task
Both symbolic (digits) and non-symbolic (dots) numerals are spatially coded, with relatively small numbers being responded faster with a left key and large numbers being responded faster with a right key (spatial–numerical association of response codes [SNARC]). The idea of format independent SNARC seems to support the existence of a common system for symbolic and non-symbolic numerical representations, although evidence in the field is still mix…
Attentional capture in emotion comparison is orientation independent
Recent findings on emotion comparison show a typical pattern of motor reactivity rising from attentional capture. When pairs of emotional faces are presented simultaneously, the most intense emotional face is recognized faster (Emotional Semantic Congruency—ESC effect). Furthermore, a global response speed advantage for emotional pairs with positive rather than negative average emotion intensity is observed (i.e., emotional size effect), with the…
It’s SNARC o’ clock
The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect consists in faster left-/right-key responses to small/large numbers. (Bächtold et al., Neuropsychologia 36:731–735, 1998) reported the reversal of this effect after eliciting the context of a clockface—where small numbers are represented on the right and large numbers on the left. The present study investigates how the salience of a particular spatial-numerical context, which refl…
Unravelling the small number bias
When asked to produce random numbers individuals generate more small numbers than large ones, a phenomenon known as “Small Number Bias” (SNB; Loetscher & Brugger, 2007). This bias has been associated with a spatial preference known as “pseudoneglect,” where attention is biased towards the left side of the mental number line during numerical processing (Loetscher & Brugger, 2009). Another potential explanation for SNB is the higher frequency of us…
Explicit and implicit spatial mapping of face age
Time is often conceptualised in spatial terms. For example, concepts such as ‘before’ and ‘after’ are frequently mapped onto the left and right sides of space, respectively. Importantly, such spatial mapping typically disappears when time is processed as a task-irrelevant dimension. In the present study, we further investigated this phenomenon using highly salient and socially relevant stimuli: human faces varying in age. We conducted two experim…
Ace in the hole
The SNARC effect indicates that numbers are mapped from left to right as in a mental number line. Accumulating evidence suggests that it could be attributed both to the magnitude or to the order of numbers, but the role of these two aspects has not yet been disambiguated since the two are tightly correlated. This study investigated the influence of order and magnitude in the SNARC effect using playing cards as stimuli. While most people organize …
Emotion meets attention
In the Posner cueing task for exogenous attention orientation, spatial correspondence between the lateralized cue and target is beneficial under conditions of short asynchrony. How such a benefit is modulated by target qualia, like faces expressing either the most positive (happy relative to angry faces in Experiment 1, as well as neutral relative to angry faces in the negative group of Experiment 2) or negative (neutral relative to happy faces i…
Number magnitude affects spatial decisions
The Spatial-Numerical Association effects describe the spatial relationship between number magnitude and response side, with small numbers usually associated with left sided responses and large numbers with right sided responses. Typically, these effects are demonstrated using response time differences in simple key press tasks, where participants are required to process the magnitude (magnitude classification task) or parity (parity judgement ta…
Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Spatial Cognition and Navigation (5 works) · Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Visual perception and processing mechanisms (4 works) · Judgement (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)