Further insights into the operation of the Chinese number system: Competing effects of Arabic and Mandarin number formats.
Here we report the results of a speeded relative quantity task with Chinese participants. On each trial a single numeral (the probe) was presented and the instructions were to respond as to whether it signified a quantity less than or greater than five (the standard). In separate blocks of trials, t...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 48; no. 8; pp. 1472 - 1484 |
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