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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Previous research demonstrated structural priming from mathematical equations to sentence construction.
  • The generalization of these effects to different structures and tasks remained unexplored.
  • The potential for cross-domain priming in the reverse direction (language to math) was unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if structural priming effects generalize across different mathematical and linguistic structures and tasks.
  • To determine if structural priming operates bidirectionally between arithmetic and language processing.
  • To provide evidence for or against the hypothesis of shared syntactic representations across cognitive domains.

Main Methods:

  • A questionnaire-based experiment was employed.
  • Participants solved structurally distinct mathematical equations (left- vs. right-branching).
  • Participants rated the sensicality of structurally distinct linguistic compounds (left- vs. right-branching).
  • Two experimental versions tested priming from math to language and from language to math.

Main Results:

  • Clear structural priming effects were observed in both directions: math-to-language and language-to-math.
  • These findings conceptually replicated and extended previous research on structural priming.
  • The results demonstrated that structural influences are not confined to a single cognitive domain.

Conclusions:

  • Structural priming effects are bidirectional between arithmetic and language processing.
  • The findings strongly support the existence of shared syntactic representations or parsing procedures across these domains.
  • This suggests a unified cognitive architecture for processing structured information, regardless of its domain.