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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Mathematics Education

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  • Language compatibility effects demonstrate how linguistic structures influence cognitive task performance.
  • Previous research suggests language influences numerical cognition, but specific mechanisms for fraction processing remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate language compatibility effects in fraction processing between English and Korean speakers.
  • To test the attentional focus hypothesis versus the verbal encoding hypothesis in fraction tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Developed and administered two novel tasks: a fraction span task and a fraction identification task.
  • Recruited English and Korean speakers to assess performance based on language-specific fraction naming conventions.

Main Results:

  • English speakers showed an advantage when task performance depended on the numerator (English names numerator first).
  • Korean speakers showed an advantage when task performance depended on the denominator (Korean names denominator first).
  • Results were inconsistent with the attentional focus hypothesis but supported the verbal encoding hypothesis.

Conclusions:

  • Language compatibility effects in fraction processing are influenced by the order of number naming in a language.
  • Fraction component encoding in verbal working memory is crucial for observing these language compatibility effects.