Michael Moutoussis, Benjamín Garzón, Sharon Neufeld, Dominik R Bach, Francesco Rigoli, Ian Goodyer, Edward Bullmore, Marc Guitart-Masip, Raymond J Dolan
Decision-making ability, psychopathology, and brain connectivity
Neuron
numbernaming systems less transparent others example dutch 49 named negenenveertig translates nine forty ie unit named first followed decade known inversion property morphosyntactic representation number name incongruent written arabic form number word inversion hamper childrens developing mathematical skills little known effects adults numeracy underlying mechanism persons bilingual background influences effects present study dutchenglish bilingual adults performed audiovisual matching task heard number word simultaneously saw twodigit arabic symbols determine whether matched quantity experimentally manipulated morphosyntactic structure number words alter phonological dissimilarities numerical congruency target arabic twodigit number results showed morphosyntactic incongruency differentially influenced quantity match nonmatch decisions although participants faster hearing traditional nontransparent dutch number names made accurate decisions hearing artificial morphosyntactically transparent number words pattern partly influenced participants bilingual background ie l2 proficiency english involves transparent number names findings suggest within inversion numbernaming systems multiple associations formed twodigit arabic symbols number names influence adults numerical cognition