Lin, Chia-Yuan and Göbel, Silke M orcid.org/0000-0001-8845-6026 (2019) Arabic digits and spoken number words:Timing modulates the cross-modal numerical distance effect. Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006). p. 1747021819854444. ISSN 1747-0226
Abstract
Moving seamlessly between spoken number words and Arabic digits is common in everyday life. In this study, we systematically investigated the correspondence between auditory number words and visual Arabic digits in adults. Auditory number words and visual Arabic digits were presented concurrently or sequentially and participants had to indicate whether they described the same quantity. We manipulated the stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) between the two stimuli (Experiment 1: -500 ms to +500 ms; Experiment 2: -200 ms to +200 ms). In both experiments, we found a significant cross-modal distance effect. This effect was strongest for simultaneous stimulus presentation and decreased with increasing SOAs. Numerical distance emerged as the most consistent significant predictor overall, in particular for simultaneous presentation. However, physical similarity between the stimuli was often a significant predictor of response times in addition to numerical distance, and at longer SOAs, physical similarity between the stimuli was the only significant predictor. This shows that SOA modulates the extent to which participants access quantity representations. Our results thus support the idea that a semantic quantity representation of auditory and visual numerical symbols is activated when participants perform a concurrent matching task, while at longer SOAs participants are more likely to rely on physical similarity between the stimuli. We also investigated whether individual differences in the efficiency of the cross-modal processing were related to differences in mathematical performance. Our results are inconclusive about whether the efficiency of cross-format numerical correspondence is related to mathematical competence in adults.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Experimental Psychology Society 2019. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESRC) ES/N014677/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2019 11:40 |
Last Modified: | 25 Dec 2024 00:19 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819854444 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1747021819854444 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:148123 |