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On the perceptual generality of the unit decade compatibility effect.

Nuerk, Hans-Christoph, Weger, Ulrich W., Willmes, K. (2004) On the perceptual generality of the unit decade compatibility effect. Experimental Psychology, 51 (1). pp. 72-79. ISSN 1618-3169. (doi:10.1027/1618-3169.51.1.72) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:4403)

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Abstract

Number magnitude is assumed to be holistically represented along a single mental number line. Recently, we have observed a unit-decade-compatibility effect which is inconsistent with that assumption (Nuerk, Weger, & Willmes, 2001). In two-digit Arabic number comparison, we have demonstrated that compatible comparisons in which separate decade and unit comparisons lead to the same decision (32_47, 3 < 4 and 2 < 7) were faster than incompatible trials (3752, 3 < 5, but 7 > 2). Because overall distance was matched, a holistic model could not account for the compatibility effect. However, one could argue that the compatibility effect was due to the specific vertical perceptual arrangement of the two-digit numbers in Nuerk et al.'s (2001) experiment where the decade digits and unit digits were presented column-wise above each other. To examine this objection, we studied the perceptual generality of the compatibility effect with diagonal presentation. We replicated the compatibility effect with diagonal presentation. It is concluded that the compatibility effect is not due to encoding characteristics imposed by the perceptual setting of the original experiment. In particular, the assumption of an overall analog magnitude representation for two-digit numbers is not consistent with these data.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1027/1618-3169.51.1.72
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: C.A. Simms
Date Deposited: 24 Sep 2008 12:03 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2023 11:29 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/4403 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Weger, Ulrich W..

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