Units-first or tens-first: Does language matter when processing visually presented two-digit numbers?

The linguistic structure of number words can influence performance in basic numerical tasks such as mental calculation, magnitude comparison, and transcoding. Especially the presence of ten-unit inversion in number words seems to affect number processing. Thus, at the beginning of formal math educat...

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Published in:	Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 73; no. 5; pp. 726 - 739
Main Authors:	Poncin, Alexandre, Van Rinsveld, Amandine, Schiltz, Christine
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. May2020
Subjects:	Older people Adults Mental arithmetic Cognitive processing of language Mathematics education
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