Word problems: A review of linguistic and numerical factors contributing to their difficulty

G Daroczy, M Wolska, WD Meurers… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Word problems (WPs) belong to the most difficult and complex problem types that pupils
encounter during their elementary-level mathematical development. In the classroom …

Mental number space in three dimensions

B Winter, T Matlock, S Shaki, MH Fischer - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2015 - Elsevier
A large number of experimental findings from neuroscience and experimental psychology
demonstrated interactions between spatial cognition and numerical cognition. In particular …

Linguistic influences on mathematics

A Dowker, HC Nuerk - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
For many years, an abstract, amodal semantic magnitude representation, largely
independent of verbal linguistic representations, has been viewed as the core numerical or …

Ocular drift along the mental number line

A Myachykov, R Ellis, A Cangelosi, MH Fischer - Psychological research, 2016 - Springer
We examined the spontaneous association between numbers and space by documenting
attention deployment and the time course of associated spatial-numerical mapping with and …

Do non‐verbal number systems shape grammar? Numerical cognition and Number morphology compared

F Franzon, C Zanini, R Rugani - Mind & Language, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Number morphology (eg, singular vs. plural) is a part of the grammar that captures numerical
information. Some languages have morphological Number values, which express few …

[PDF][PDF] True colors SNARCing: Automaticity of the SNARC effect–evidence from color judgment tasks

L Roth, K Cipora, HC Nuerk, UD Reips, J Caffier - Preprint at https://doi. org/10, 2024 - osf.io
Numbers are highly relevant in our everyday lives. Besides intentionally processing number
magnitude when necessary, we often automatically process it even when not required. The …

One can be some but some cannot be one: ERP correlates of numerosity incongruence are different for singular and plural

G Arcara, F Franzon, S Gastaldon, S Brotto… - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
Humans can communicate information on numerosity by means of number words (eg, one
hundred, a couple), but also through Number morphology (eg, through the singular vs the …

Collective nouns are conceptually plural: Evidence from the grammatical SNARC effect.

ND Patson, T Warren, F Hurler… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
To develop theories of how comprehenders extract the message from a linguistic stream, it is
critical to understand how they conceptually represent referents. The experiments reported …

Effects of animacy on the processing of morphological Number: a cognitive inheritance?

C Zanini, R Rugani, D Giomo, F Peressotti… - Word …, 2020 - euppublishing.com
Language encodes into morphology part of the information present in the referential world.
Some features are marked in the great majority of languages, such as the numerosity of the …

Measuring spontaneous and automatic processing of magnitude and parity information of Arabic digits by frequency-tagging EEG

M Guillaume, A Poncin, C Schiltz, A Van Rinsveld - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Arabic digits (1–9) are everywhere in our daily lives. These symbols convey various
semantic information, and numerate adults can easily extract from them several numerical …