Moeller, Korbinian, Shaki, Samuel, Göbel, Silke M orcid.org/0000-0001-8845-6026 et al. (1 more author) (2015) Language influences number processing - A quadrilingual study. Cognition. pp. 150-155. ISSN 0010-0277
Abstract
Reading/writing direction or number word formation influence performance even in basic numerical tasks such as magnitude comparison. However, so far the interaction of these language properties has not been evaluated systematically. In this study we tested English, German, Hebrew, and Arab participants realizing a natural 2×2 design of reading/writing direction (left-to-right vs. right-to-left) and number word formation (non-inverted vs. inverted, i.e., forty-seven vs. seven-and-forty). Symbolic number magnitude comparison was specifically influenced by the interaction of reading/writing direction and number word formation: participants from cultures where reading direction and the order of tens and units in number words are incongruent (i.e., German and Hebrew) exhibited more pronounced unit interference in place-value integration. A within-group comparison indicated that this effect was not due to differences in education. Thus, basic cultural differences in numerical cognition were driven by natural language variables and their specific combination.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of a paper accepted for publication in Cognition. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 23 Dec 2015 13:03 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 12:29 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.003 |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.003 |
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