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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Numerical Cognition
  • Human Perception

Background:

  • Recognizing smallest/largest values is key, but multidigit number perception is understudied.
  • End effects, or biases towards endpoints, are known for single digits but not multidigit numbers.
  • Number length influences numeric scale (e.g., 10s, 100s), impacting magnitude perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate end effects in multidigit number comparisons.
  • To determine if number length (numeric scale) impacts these end effects.
  • To explore how adjacent versus nonadjacent numeric scales influence number perception.

Main Methods:

  • Four experiments (N=120, 100, 80, 120) involved numerical comparisons.
  • Participants compared end-values vs. nonend-values on same/different numeric scales.
  • Varied end-value type (lower/upper) and numerical range.

Main Results:

  • A novel numeric-scale end effect was observed: larger effects for nonadjacent scales (≥2), smaller for adjacent scales.
  • End effects were absent or weak in same-scale multidigit comparisons.
  • The known lower end effect for single digits (vs. 1) was replicated.

Conclusions:

  • Multidigit number processing differs for adjacent versus nonadjacent numeric scales.
  • Findings support a syntactic explanation based on perceptual dominance of numeric scale, not psychophysics.
  • Number scale is crucial for evaluating multidigit number magnitude.