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Roettger, Timo B. and Domahs, Frank (2015). Grammatical number elicits SNARC and MARC effects as a function of task demands. Q. J. Exp. Psychol., 68 (6). S. 1231 - 1249. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1747-0226

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Abstract

Despite the robustness of the spatial-numerical association of response codes (SNARC) and linguistic markedness of response codes (MARC) effect, the mechanisms that underlie these effects are still under debate. In this paper, we investigate the extraction of quantity information from German number words and nouns inflected for singular and plural using two alternative forced choice paradigms. These paradigms are applied to different tasks to investigate how access to quantity representation is modulated by task demands. In Experiment 1, we replicated previous SNARC findings for number words-that is, a relative left-hand advantage for words denoting small numbers and a right-hand advantage for words denoting large numbers in semantic tasks (parity decision and quantity comparison). No SNARC effect was obtained for surface or lexical processing tasks (font categorization and lexical decision). In Experiment 2, we found that German words inflected for singular had a relative left-hand advantage, and German words inflected for plural a relative right-hand advantage, showing a SNARC-like effect for grammatical number. The effect interfered, however, with a MARC-like effect based on the markedness asymmetry of singulars and plurals. These two effects appear to be dissociated by response latency rather than task demands, with MARC being more pronounced in early responses and SNARC being more pronounced in late responses. The present findings shed light on the relationship of conceptual number and grammatical number and constrain current accounts of the SNARC and MARC effects.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Roettger, Timo B. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Domahs, Frank UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-401305
DOI:	10.1080/17470218.2014.979843
Journal or Publication Title:	Q. J. Exp. Psychol.
Volume:	68
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 1231 - 1249
Date:	2015
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1747-0226
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language WORD RECOGNITION; SEMANTIC NUMBER; REPRESENTATION; MARKEDNESS; FREQUENCY; CHOICE; MODEL Multiple languages Psychology, Biological; Physiology; Psychology; Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/40130