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  • Cognitive Science
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Numerical Cognition

Background:

  • Language processing involves understanding quantifiers, which can have logical properties like polarity.
  • Numerical estimation and comparison tasks rely on both linguistic and perceptual information.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how the polarity of quantifiers affects language processing during numerical verification.
  • To compare the impact of linguistic versus non-linguistic probes on verification performance.
  • To examine the interplay between perceptual difficulty (Weber's Law) and quantifier polarity effects.

Main Methods:

  • Participants verified visual scenarios using sentences with quantifiers varying in polarity.
  • Visual scenarios were also presented with non-linguistic inequality symbols (<, >).
  • Reaction times and error rates were measured to assess performance.

Main Results:

  • Perceptual difficulty significantly impacted reaction time and error rates, consistent with Weber's Law.
  • Quantifier polarity affected performance, even when sentence meaning and structure were controlled.
  • Non-linguistic inequality symbols did not show polarity effects.
  • No interaction was found between Weber's Law effects and Polarity effects.

Conclusions:

  • Quantifier polarity influences language processing in numerical tasks, distinct from perceptual factors.
  • Linguistic processing of quantifiers engages specific cognitive mechanisms not present in non-linguistic comparisons.
  • The findings contribute to understanding the cognitive architecture of number and language integration.