Give or Take: Semantic Priming from Sentences to Two-Digit Operations.

IF 2.7 3区医学 Q3 NEUROSCIENCES

Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI:10.3390/brainsci15060662

Miguel Ayala-Cuesta, Sofía Castro, Pedro Macizo

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Abstract

Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the potential existence of shared semantics between linguistic (e.g., reading a sentence) and numerical information (e.g., performing an arithmetic operation).

Methods: To evaluate this proposal, we devised a paradigm with blocks of two trials. In the first trial, participants were presented with sentences containing verbs that conveyed either an increase (e.g., "to give") or a decrease (e.g., "to take away"). In the subsequent trial, participants were required to perform additions (e.g., 61 + 1) and subtractions (e.g., 52 - 4). We hypothesized that addition and subtraction would exhibit shared semantic processing with sentences denoting increase and decrease, respectively, resulting in cross-domain effects.

Results: Participants exhibited enhanced speed and accuracy in addition problem-solving when preceded by increase sentences, whereas subtractions were solved with higher accuracy when preceded by decrease sentences. Moreover, these effects were found to be subject to modulation by the complexity of the numerical operation.

Conclusions: The findings of this study support the hypothesis that there is a shared semantic processing between language and mathematics.

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给予或接受：从句子到两位数运算的语义启动。

目的：本研究的目的是评估语言（例如，阅读句子）和数字信息（例如，执行算术运算）之间共享语义的潜在存在。方法：为了评估这一建议，我们设计了一个由两个试验组成的范例。在第一个实验中，研究人员向参与者展示了包含动词的句子，这些动词要么表达了增加（例如，“给予”），要么表达了减少（例如，“拿走”）。在随后的试验中，参与者被要求进行加法（例如61 + 1）和减法（例如52 - 4）。我们假设加法和减法会分别与表示增加和减少的句子表现出共享的语义处理，从而产生跨域效应。结果：被试在加号句前解决加号题的速度和准确性提高，在减号句前解决减号题的准确性提高。此外，发现这些效应受到数值运算复杂性的调制。结论：本研究结果支持语言和数学之间存在共同语义加工的假设。

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Brain Sciences Neuroscience-General Neuroscience

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

1472

审稿时长

18.71 days

期刊介绍： Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles, critical reviews, research notes and short communications in the areas of cognitive neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, molecular and cellular neuroscience, neural engineering, neuroimaging, neurolinguistics, neuropathy, systems neuroscience, and theoretical and computational neuroscience. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculation and experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, can be deposited as supplementary material.