Abstract
The retention of serial-order information is a critical element of working memory (WM), as it allows for the structured encoding and maintenance of the sequential order of events and stimuli. The retention of serial-order information is critical for success in many different cognitive tasks, including numerical tasks. A number of studies have shown a close association between serial-order WM and numerical cognition. We examine here the nature of this association by highlighting its bidirectional character. On the one hand, serial-order WM capacities appear to determine mental arithmetic abilities. On the other hand, the link between serial-order WM and numerical cognition involves access to shared ordinal representations, whose spatial, temporal, or abstract nature still needs to be determined. The findings reviewed here support the existence of domain-general serial-order codes for WM and numerical cognition but without excluding the possibility of additional, domain-specific codes.
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