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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Symbolic Representation
  • Ordinal Learning

Background:

  • The uniqueness of number symbol representation is often assumed but under-researched.
  • Little is known about how symbol properties, like spatial complexity, impact ordinal learning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether the spatial complexity of symbols affects the learning of ordinal sequences.
  • To determine if novel symbol sets can be ordered based on spatial complexity.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: 46 adults evaluated novel symbol sets (Gibson, Sunúz) for spatial complexity ordering.
  • Study 2: 84 adults learned to order nine Sunúz symbols using paired comparisons and ranking.
  • Participants were assigned to conditions with either a relationship or random relationship between spatial complexity and symbol order.

Main Results:

  • Findings indicate that spatial complexity significantly affected participants' learning ability.
  • Pairing spatial complexity with relational information facilitated the learning of ordinal sequences.

Conclusions:

  • Symbolic spatial complexity plays a role in the ease of learning ordinal sequences.
  • This suggests that the cognitive representation of order may be a general feature applicable beyond numerical symbols.