Ordinality: The importance of its trial list composition and examining its relation with adults' arithmetic and mathematical reasoning.

ABSTRACT: Understanding whether a sequence is presented in an order or not (i.e., ordinality) is a robust predictor of adults' arithmetic performance, but the mechanisms underlying this skill and its relationship with mathematics remain unclear. In this study, we examined (a) the cognitive strategies involved in ordinality inferred from behavioural effects observed in different types of sequences and (b) whether ordinality is also related to mathematical reasoning besides arithmetic. In Experiment 1, participants performed an arithmetic, a mathematical reasoning test, and an order task, which had balanced trials on the basis of order, direction, regularity, and distance. We observed standard distance effects (DEs) for ordered and non-ordered sequences, which suggest reliance on magnitude comparison

SUBMITTER: Vos H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8450998 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature