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Masked priming effect with canonical finger numeral configurations.

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Di Luca, Samuel [UCL] Pesenti, Mauro [UCL]

Discrete numerosities can be represented by various finger configurations. The impact of counting strategies on these configurations and their possible semantic status were investigated in young adults. Experiment 1 showed that young adults named numerical finger configurations faster when they conformed to their own canonical finger-counting habits than when they did not. Experiment 2 showed that numeral finger configurations used as unconsciously presented primes speeded up numerical comparative judgements of Arabic numeral targets. Participants responded faster and made fewer errors with numerical than with non-numerical primes, and when primes and targets were congruent (i.e., leading to the same response). Moreover, this priming effect generalised to novel never consciously seen numerosities for canonical configurations but not for non-canonical ones. These results support the idea that canonical finger configurations automatically activate number semantics whereas non-canonical ones do not.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Comparative Study, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2008
Journal information "Experimental brain research. Experimentelle Hirnforschung. Expérimentation cérébrale" - Vol. 185, no. 1, p. 27-39 (2008)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0014-4819
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL
MESH Subject Semantics ; Reaction Time - physiology ; Psychomotor Performance - physiology ; Photic Stimulation - methods ; Mathematics ; Male ; Humans ; Fingers - physiology ; Female ; Adult
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Bibliographic reference Di Luca, Samuel ; Pesenti, Mauro. Masked priming effect with canonical finger numeral configurations.. In: Experimental brain research. Experimentelle Hirnforschung. Expérimentation cérébrale, Vol. 185, no. 1, p. 27-39 (2008)
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