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Give or Take: Semantic Priming from Sentences to Two-Digit Operations
Miguel Ayala-Cuesta1,2, Sofía Castro3, Pedro Macizo1,2
1Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Centre (CIMCYC), 18011 Granada, Spain.
Brain Sciences
|June 26, 2025
Summary
Language and math share semantic processing. Reading sentences about increase/decrease influenced arithmetic speed and accuracy, suggesting a common cognitive ground between linguistic and numerical tasks.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Neuroscience
- Psycholinguistics
Background:
- The relationship between language processing and mathematical cognition is an area of ongoing research.
- Investigating shared semantic representations could illuminate fundamental aspects of human cognition.
Purpose of the Study:
- To determine if semantic processing is shared between linguistic information (sentences) and numerical information (arithmetic operations).
- To explore cross-domain effects between language comprehension and mathematical problem-solving.
Main Methods:
- A two-trial experimental paradigm was employed.
- Participants processed sentences with verbs indicating increase or decrease, followed by addition or subtraction tasks.
- Hypothesized shared semantic processing between increase/addition and decrease/subtraction.
Main Results:
- Faster and more accurate addition performance followed increase sentences.
- Higher accuracy in subtraction was observed after decrease sentences.
- These effects were modulated by the complexity of the numerical operations.
Conclusions:
- Findings support the hypothesis of shared semantic processing between language and mathematics.
- This suggests a common underlying cognitive mechanism for processing both linguistic and numerical concepts.
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