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Benjamin Pitt (CV)
Postdoc at UC Berkeley

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Papers
PDF - Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2022). The order of magnitude:Why SNARC-like tasks (still) cannot support a generalized magnitude system. Cognitive Science. doi:10.1111/cogs.13108

PDF - Pitt, B., Ferrigno, S., Cantlon, J. F., Casasanto, D., Gibson, E., & Piantadosi, S. T. (2021). Spatial concepts of number, size, and time in an indigenous culture. Science Advances, 7(33). doi:10.1126/sciadv.abg4141

PDF - Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2020). The correlations in experience principle: How culture shapes concepts of time and number. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(6), 1048-1070.

PDF - Casasanto, D. & Pitt, B. (2019). The faulty magnitude detector: Why SNARC-like tasks cannot support a Generalized Magnitude System. Cognitive Science, 43. doi:10.1111/cogs.12794

PDF - Pitt, B. Scales, K., & Casasanto, D. (2018). Time and numbers on the fingers: Dissociating the mental time line and the mental number line. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, T. T. Rogers (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 890-895). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

PDF - Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2018). Spatializing emotion: No evidence for a domain-general magnitude system. Cognitive Science. 42(7), 2150-2180.

PDF - Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2016). Reading experience shapes the mental timeline but not the mental number line. In A. Papfragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.2753-2758). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

PDF - Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2016). Spatializing emotion: A mapping of valence or magnitude? In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.1056-1061). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

PDF - Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2014). Experiential origins of the mental number line. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1174-1179). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Presentations
Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2019, May). Ordinality trumps cardinality: What we spatialize when we spatialize numbers. Poster presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Casasanto, D. & Pitt, B. (2019, May). How culture shapes abstract concepts: Insights from time and number. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2018, September). Spatializing time and number: How culture shapes cognitive universals. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, Italy.

Gijssels, T., Pitt, B., Bottini, R., Battal, C., Collignon, O., & Casasanto, D. (2018, September). Modality matters: Space-time mappings differ in vision and audition. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, Italy.

Pitt, B., Scales, K., & Casasanto, D. (2018, July). Time and numbers on the fingers: Dissociating the mental timeline and mental number line. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI.

Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2017, November). Spatializing time and number: How culture shapes cognitive universals. Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC.

Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2017, May). Distinct Experiential Origins of the Mental Number Line and Mental Timeline. Poster session presented at the 29th Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Boston, MA.

Pitt, B. & Casasanto, D. (2017, April). Experiential origins of the mental time line and the mental number line. Paper presented at the 89th Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Pitt, B. (2016, May). Experiential origins of the mental time line and the mental number line. In D. Casasanto (Chair), Spatial mappings of time and number: commonalities and distinctions. Symposium conducted at the International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain.

Pitt, B., & Casasanto, D. (2016, May). Experiential origins of the mental time line and the mental number line. Poster session presented at the 2nd International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain.

Pitt, B., & Casasanto, D. (2014, July). Experiential origins of the mental number line. Poster session presented at the 6th annual conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, San Diego, CA.

Contact Information
Department of Psychology
The University of Chicago
5848 S. University Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

pitt at uchicago dot edu
Phone: (773) 702-8829