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On the limits of language influences on numerical cognition – no inversion effects in three-digit number magnitude processing in adults

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, August 2015
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Title
On the limits of language influences on numerical cognition – no inversion effects in three-digit number magnitude processing in adults
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Frontiers in Psychology, August 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01216
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Julia Bahnmueller, Korbinian Moeller, Anne Mann, Hans-Christoph Nuerk

Abstract

The inversion of number words influences numerical cognition even in seemingly non-verbal tasks, such as Arabic number comparison. However, it is an open question whether inversion of decades and units also influences number processing beyond the two-digit number range. The current study addresses this question by investigating compatibility effects in both German- (a language with inverted) and English-speaking (a language with non-inverted number words) university students (mean age 22 years) in a three-digit number comparison task. We observed reliable hundred-decade as well as hundred-unit compatibility effects for three-digit number comparison. This indicates that, comparable two-digit numbers, three-digit numbers are processed in a parallel decomposed fashion. However, in contrast to previous results on two-digit numbers as well as on children's processing of three-digit numbers, no reliable modulation of these compatibility effects through language was observed in adults. The present data indicate that inversion-related differences in multi-digit number processing are limited. They seem to be restricted to the number range involving those digits being inverted (i.e., tens and units in two-digit numbers) but do not generalize to neighboring digits. Possible reasons for this lack of generalization are discussed.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 14 27%
Student > Master 9 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 17%
Researcher 7 13%
Student > Postgraduate 2 4%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 6 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 37 71%
Linguistics 3 6%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 7 13%
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