On your mental number line, are the numbers smaller on the left or on the right? Two comparative cognition researchers explain how culture may influence the orientation – but also may not.
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Horizontal number lines are often the default option – but our brains may process numbers more quickly in a vertical arrangement.
Red Dead Redemption 2 has been criticised for its portrayals of violence, but it could also be teaching players the lost art of reading a map.
Without their devices, regular GPS users take longer to negotiate a route, travel more slowly and make larger navigational errors.
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