Related but not the same: Ordinality, cardinality and 1-to-1 correspondence in finger-based numerical representations
- Finger-based numerical representations have gained increasing research interest. However, their description and assessment often refer to different numerical principles of ordinality, cardinality and 1-to-1 correspondence. Our aim was to investigate similarities and differences between these principles in finger-based numerical representations. Sixty-eight healthy adults performed ordinal finger counting, cardinal finger montring (showing the number of gestures) and finger-to-number mapping with twisted arms and fingers. We found that counting gestures and montring postures were identical for Number 10 but differed to varying degrees for other numbers. Interestingly, there was no systematic relation between finger-to-number mapping and ordinal finger counting habits. These data question the assumption of a unitary embodied finger-based numerical representation, but suggest that different finger-based representations co-exist and can be recruited flexibly depending on the numerical aspects to be conveyed.
Author details: | Mirjam Wasner, Korbinian Möller, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND, Hans-Christoph Nuerk |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2014.964719 |
ISSN: | 2044-5911 |
ISSN: | 2044-592X |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of cognitive psychology |
Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Tag: | 1-to-1 Correspondence; Cardinality; Finger counting; Finger-based numerical representations; Ordinality |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 4 |
Number of pages: | 16 |
First page: | 426 |
Last Page: | 441 |
Funding institution: | Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany; Excellence Initiative of the German federal government [GSC1028]; Excellence Initiative of the German state government [GSC1028]; DFG [FI 1915/2-1] |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |