PT J AU Berteletti, I
Lucangeli, D
Zorzi, MAF Berteletti, Ilaria
Lucangeli, Daniela
Zorzi, MarcoTI Representation of numerical and non-numerical order in children SO COGNITION AB The representation of numerical and non-numerical ordered sequences was investigated in children from preschool to grade 3. The child's conception of how sequence items map onto a spatial scale was tested using the Number-to-Position task (Siegler & Opfer, 2003) and new variants of the task designed to probe the representation of the alphabet (i.e., letter sequence) and the calendar year (i.e., month sequence). The representation of non-numerical order showed the same developmental pattern previously observed for numerical representation, with a logarithmic mapping in the youngest children and a shift to linear mapping in older children. Although the individual ability to position non-numerical items was related to the child's knowledge of the sequence, a significant amount of unique variance was explained by her type of number-line representation. These results suggest that the child's conception of numerical order is generalized to non-numerical sequences and that the concept of linearity is acquired in the numerical domain first and progressively extended to all ordinal sequences. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PD SEP PY 2012 VL 124 IS 3 BP 304 EP 313 ER
PT J AU Verdonschot, RG
Middelburg, R
Lensink, SE
Schiller, NOAF Verdonschot, Rinus G.
Middelburg, Renee
Lensink, Saskia E.
Schiller, Niels O.TI Morphological priming survives a language switch SO COGNITION AB In a long-lag morphological priming experiment, Dutch (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals were asked to name pictures and read aloud words. A design using non-switch blocks, consisting solely of Dutch stimuli, and switch-blocks, consisting of Dutch primes and targets with intervening English trials, was administered. Target picture naming was facilitated by morphologically related primes in both non-switch and switch blocks with equal magnitude. These results contrast some assumptions of sustained reactive inhibition models. However, models that do not assume bilinguals having to reactively suppress all activation of the non-target language can account for these data. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PD SEP PY 2012 VL 124 IS 3 BP 343 EP 349 ER
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