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| Research article summary (published 30 Dec 2001): |
Verbal structure of numerals and digits handwriting: new evidence from kinematics.
Full Abstract
Two experiments used a digitizing tablet to analyse the temporal, spatial, and kinematic characteristics of handwritten production of arabic numbers. They addressed a specific issue of the numerical domain:
Does the lexical and syntactic structure of verbal numerals influence the production of arabic numerals (Experiments 1 and 2), even after enforced semantic processing in a comparison task (Experiment 2)? Subjects had to write multi-digit arabic numerals (e.g., 1200) presented in two different verbal structures:
a multiplicative one (e.g., teen-hundred, douze cents (twelve hundred)) or an additive one (e.g., thousand-unit-hundred, mille deux cents (one thousand two hundred)). Results show differences in the inter-digit jumps that reflect the influence of the structure of verbal numerals, even after the semantic task. This finding is discussed with regard to different models of number transcoding (McCloskey, Caramazza, & Basili, 1985; Power & Dal Martello, 1990, 1997).
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Author information
Author/s: Lochy, Aliette (A); Pillon, Agnesa (A); Zesiger, Pascal (P); Seron, Xavier (X);
Affiliation: Catholic University of Louvain, Faculté de Psychologie, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. lochy(-atsign-)neco.ucl.ac.be
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology (Q J Exp Psychol A), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jan; vol 55 (issue 1) : pp 263-88
Dates: Created 2002/03/04; Completed 2002/05/07; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 11873851, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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