2015
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01216
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On the limits of language influences on numerical cognition – no inversion effects in three-digit number magnitude processing in adults

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-digi… Show more

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“…Several studies indicate that the unit-decade compatibility effect depends on language 52 56 (but see Bahnmüller et al . 57 , for limits of language effects). Macizo and Herrera 52 54 were able to show that Spanish participants can focus more easily on decades and ignore the units.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several studies indicate that the unit-decade compatibility effect depends on language 52 56 (but see Bahnmüller et al . 57 , for limits of language effects). Macizo and Herrera 52 54 were able to show that Spanish participants can focus more easily on decades and ignore the units.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Evidence for the componential processing of multi-digit numbers complying with the place-value structure of the Arabic number system comes from a broad variety of tasks ranging from simple magnitude comparison to more complex numerical and arithmetical tasks. For instance, the unit-decade compatibility effect is one indicator of the componential processing of tens and units in number magnitude comparison (Nuerk, Weger, & Willmes, 2001): number pairs for which separate comparisons of tens and units yield compatible decision biases (e.g., 42_57; 4 < 5 and 2 < 7) are responded to faster and with fewer errors than number pairs for which these separate comparisons of tens and units yield incompatible decision biases (e.g., 47_62, 4 < 6, but 7 > 2, e.g., Ganor-Stern, Tzelgov, & Ellenbogen, 2007;Kallai & Tzelgov, 2012;Macizo & Herrera, 2013;Moeller, Klein, Nuerk, & Willmes, 2013; see also Bahnmueller, Moeller, Mann, & Nuerk, 2015, Korvorst & Damian, 2008, for evidence on three-digit numbers).…”
Section: Processing Place-value Information Of Multi-digit Numbersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To investigate potential modulating effects of linguistic markedness more directly, we compared overall reaction times as well as the respective numerical effects directly between the newly conducted pick smaller and the pick larger experiment in Bahnmueller et al (2015). In line with previous reports (Arend & Henik, 2015;Verguts & De Moor, 2005), we expected prolonged reaction times when instructed to pick the smaller as compared to picking the larger number.…”
Section: The Present Studymentioning
confidence: 62%
“…When overall distance is held constant between compatible and incompatible number pairs, compatible number pairs are usually responded to faster and with fewer errors than incompatible ones. Moreover, compatibility effects were also observed for three-digit numbers (Bahnmueller et al, 2015(Bahnmueller et al, , 2016Korvorst & Damian, 2008;Mann, Moeller, Pixner, Kaufmann, & Nuerk, 2012; see also Huber, Moeller, Nuerk, & Willmes, 2013 for simulated data; see also Meyerhoff, Moeller, Debus, & Nuerk, 2012 for compatibility effects in four-and six-digit numbers). Following the same logic as for twodigit numbers, hundred-decade and hundred-unit compatibility effects can be defined for three-digit numbers (e.g., the number pair 327_465 is hundred-decade compatible because 3 < 4 and 2 < 6, but it is hundred-unit incompatible because 3 < 4 but 7 > 5).…”
Section: Numerical Distance and Compatibility Effectsmentioning
confidence: 85%