Concepts of order: Why is ordinality processed slower and less accurately for non-consecutive sequences?

ABSTRACT: Both adults and children are slower at judging the ordinality of non-consecutive sequences (e.g., 1-3-5) than consecutive sequences (e.g., 1-2-3). It has been suggested that the processing of non-consecutive sequences is slower because it conflicts with the intuition that only count-list sequences are correctly ordered. An alternative explanation, however, may be that people simply find it difficult to switch between consecutive and non-consecutive concepts of order during order judgement tasks. Therefore, in adult participants, we tested whether presenting consecutive and non-consecutive sequences separately would eliminate this switching demand and thus improve performance. In contrast with this prediction, however, we observed similar patterns of response times independent of whether se

SUBMITTER: Devlin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11295408 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature