Language and Arithmetic
- We examined cross-domain semantic priming effects between arithmetic and language. We paired subtractions with their linguistic equivalent, exception phrases (EPs) with positive quantifiers (e.g., "everybody except John") while pairing additions with their own linguistic equivalent, EPs with negative quantifiers (e.g., "nobody except John"; Moltmann, 1995). We hypothesized that EPs with positive quantifiers prime subtractions and inhibit additions while EPs with negative quantifiers prime additions and inhibit subtractions. Furthermore, we expected similar priming and inhibition effects from arithmetic into semantics. Our design allowed for a bidirectional analysis by using one trial's target as the prime for the next trial. Two experiments failed to show significant priming effects in either direction. Implications and possible shortcomings are explored in the general discussion.
Author details: | Golnoush Ronasi, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND, Malte ZimmermannORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01524 |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30190694 |
Title of parent work (English): | Frontiers in psychology |
Subtitle (English): | a failure to find cross cognitive domain semantic priming between exception phrases and subtraction or addition |
Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation |
Place of publishing: | Lausanne |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/08/23 |
Publication year: | 2018 |
Release date: | 2021/10/12 |
Tag: | arithmetic; cognitive module; cross-domain priming; information integration; language |
Volume: | 9 |
Number of pages: | 12 |
Funding institution: | Potsdam University Library |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
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License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |