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The journey of numbers from attention to motor processing: an embodied account of neural response to number magnitudes.

  • Saied Sabaghypour1,2
  • Farhad Farkhondeh Tale Navi3
  • Martin H Fischer4
  • Parvin Amini Yeganeh5
  • Mohammad Ali Nazari6
  • Mojtaba Soltanlou7,8,9
9 affiliations
  1. 1Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
  2. 2Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
  3. 3Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. [email protected].
  4. 4Division of Cognitive Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
  5. 5Faculty of Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
  6. 6Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  7. 7Department of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK.
  8. 8Centre for Educational Neuroscience, University of London, London, UK.
  9. 9Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Abstract

Embodied cognition suggests numbers are linked to physical actions and sensory experiences. Additionally, sensory processing, thoughts or actions are modulated by attentional shifts/control. This study investigates how learned motor associations in individuals (finger-counting habits) shape brain responses to digit symbols. We examined how covert attention to motor associations influences neural responses during passive viewing of symbolic numbers, using event-related potentials (ERPs) and time-frequency analysis. We examined whether the P2 component, linked to attentional processing, correlates with motor habits and alpha wave activity. Results showed stronger P2 component when number-hand associations aligned, with no significant alpha wave changes was observed. Right-starters exhibited enhanced attention and number processing, with higher P3 amplitudes and faster responses for all digits. Taken together, these findings provide preliminary support for the idea that attention to learned motor associations may influence neural responses to numerical information. We discuss these findings within our proposed theoretical framework termed Feature-based Attention to Learned Motor (FALM) processing.

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@article{sabaghypour2026journey,
  title = {{The journey of numbers from attention to motor processing: an embodied account of neural response to number magnitudes.}},
  author = {Saied Sabaghypour and Farhad Farkhondeh Tale Navi and Martin H Fischer and Parvin Amini Yeganeh and Mohammad Ali Nazari and Mojtaba Soltanlou},
  journal = {Behavioral and brain functions : BBF},
  year = {2026},
  month = aug,
  doi = {10.1186/s12993-026-00361-x},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42958284},
  note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - The journey of numbers from attention to motor processing: an embodied account of neural response to number magnitudes.
AU  - Saied Sabaghypour
AU  - Farhad Farkhondeh Tale Navi
AU  - Martin H Fischer
AU  - Parvin Amini Yeganeh
AU  - Mohammad Ali Nazari
AU  - Mojtaba Soltanlou
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/08/02
JO  - Behavioral and brain functions : BBF
DO  - 10.1186/s12993-026-00361-x
UR  - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42958284
AB  - Embodied cognition suggests numbers are linked to physical actions and sensory experiences. Additionally, sensory processing, thoughts or actions are modulated by attentional shifts/control. This study investigates how learned motor associations in individuals (finger-counting habits) shape brain responses to digit symbols. We examined how covert attention to motor associations influences neural responses during passive viewing of symbolic numbers, using event-related potentials (ERPs) and time-frequency analysis. We examined whether the P2 component, linked to attentional processing, correlates with motor habits and alpha wave activity. Results showed stronger P2 component when number-hand associations aligned, with no significant alpha wave changes was observed. Right-starters exhibited enhanced attention and number processing, with higher P3 amplitudes and faster responses for all digits. Taken together, these findings provide preliminary support for the idea that attention to learned motor associations may influence neural responses to numerical information. We discuss these findings within our proposed theoretical framework termed Feature-based Attention to Learned Motor (FALM) processing.
SN  - 1744-9081
ER  -