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-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

SUBMITTER: Bahnmueller J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4532912 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature