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Across-notation automatic processing of two-digit numbers.

Dana Ganor-Stern¹, Joseph Tzelgov

¹Achva Academic College, M.P. Shikmim, Israel.

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|August 14, 2010

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This study explored how Arabic speakers process two-digit numbers across different numeral systems. Findings suggest an abstract magnitude representation exists, regardless of notation, influencing numerical and physical comparisons.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Numerical Cognition
Cross-Cultural Psychology

Background:

Arabic speakers utilize both Arabic and Indian numerical symbols.
Understanding numerical processing across different notations is crucial for cognitive science.
Previous research established effects of digit differences and compatibility on numerical comparison.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the existence of across-notation automatic numerical processing for two-digit numbers.
To examine how numerical and physical comparison tasks are influenced by number notation.
To determine if a common abstract representation of magnitude underlies number processing.

Main Methods:

Participants (Arabic speakers) performed numerical and physical size comparison tasks with two-digit numbers.
Numbers were presented in same-notation (e.g., Arabic-Arabic) and mixed-notation (e.g., Arabic-Indian) pairs.
Response times and accuracy were analyzed, considering factors like decade difference, unit-decade compatibility, and global distance.

Main Results:

Numerical comparison was influenced by decade difference and unit-decade compatibility, consistent with prior findings.
Physical comparison showed a size congruency effect (SiCE), modulated by unit-decade compatibility.
The size congruency effect was not affected by global distance, suggesting automatic processing of unit and decade digits into magnitude.

Conclusions:

The results support the existence of an abstract representation of numerical magnitude, independent of specific notation.
Automatic processing of number components (units and decades) contributes to this abstract representation.
Across-notation processing indicates a shared cognitive mechanism for understanding number size.