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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychophysics
  • Sensory Perception

Background:

  • Existing research on numerosity estimation often overlooks temporal factors in sequential tasks.
  • A framework exists to separate numerical and non-numerical information in parallel tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel method for assessing temporal magnitude influence on sequential numerosity judgments.
  • To extend existing frameworks to accommodate sequential stimulus presentation.

Main Methods:

  • Introduced a novel stimulus space for sequential tasks, orthogonally manipulating numerosity, duration, and temporal spacing.
  • Validated the method across visual and auditory modalities in two experiments.
  • Provided open-source code for stimulus generation and data analysis.

Main Results:

  • Adult participants primarily relied on numerosity for sequence discrimination across modalities.
  • Non-numerical temporal cues, specifically total stimulus duration, significantly biased numerical processing.
  • Numerosity discrimination acuity was similar in visual and auditory modalities.

Conclusions:

  • Temporal properties of stimuli critically influence sequential numerosity judgments, even when participants focus on quantity.
  • The findings underscore the importance of considering temporal features in multimodal and cross-modal research.
  • The developed method allows for a nuanced understanding of numerical and non-numerical cue integration.