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Saccadic Compression of Symbolic Numerical Magnitude Paola Binda1,2*, M. Concetta Morrone1,3, Frank Bremmer4 ` 1 Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, Universita di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, 2 Department of Psychology, University of ¨ Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 3 Scientific Institute Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy, 4 Department of Neurophysics, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Marburg, Germany Abstract Stimuli flashed briefly around the time of saccadic eye movements are subject to complex distortions: compression of space and time; underestimate of numerosity. Here we show that saccadic distortions extend to abstract quantities, affecting the representation of symbolic numerical magnitude. Subjects consistently underestimated the results of rapidly computed mental additions and subtractions, when the operands were briefly displayed before a saccade. However, the recognition of the number symbols was unimpaired. These results are consistent with the hypothesis of a common, abstract metric encoding magnitude along multiple dimensions. They suggest that a surprising link exists between the preparation of action and the representation of abstract quantities. Citation: Binda P, Morrone MC, Bremmer F (2012) Saccadic Compression of Symbolic Numerical Magnitude. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49587. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0049587 Editor: Marc O. Ernst, Bielefeld University, Germany Received June 24, 2012; Accepted October 12, 2012; Published November 15, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Bind