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Visual form matching supports arithmetic across visual and auditory modalities.
| Τίτλος: | Visual form matching supports arithmetic across visual and auditory modalities. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Zhang Y; School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116029, China. psyzxyun@lnnu.edu.cn., Ma Y; School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116029, China., Chen Z; School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116029, China., Cui J; College of Education, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, China., Wang Y; School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116029, China. |
| Πηγή: | Psychological research [Psychol Res] 2026 Sep 08; Vol. 90 (5). Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Sep 08. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Springer-Verlag Country of Publication: Germany NLM ID: 0435062 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1430-2772 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 03400727 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Psychol Res Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: Berlin, New York, Springer-Verlag. |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Auditory Perception*/physiology , Visual Perception*/physiology , Pattern Recognition, Visual*/physiology , Problem Solving*/physiology , Mathematics*, Reaction Time/physiology ; Humans ; Female ; Male ; Young Adult ; Adult ; Adolescent |
| Περίληψη: | Arithmetic computation is ubiquitous in daily life and occurs in both visual and auditory modalities. Visual form matching, as a key visual perceptual ability, serves as an important cognitive basis for arithmetic ability, but its role in auditory arithmetic tasks remains unclear. The primary aim of this study was to examine whether the association between visual form matching and arithmetic processing is influenced by the presentation modality. A sample of 241 undergraduates from China (109 males, 132 females, M age = 21.49, SD = 2.37) participated in the study. Participants completed seven tasks, including arithmetic tasks presented visually and auditorily, a visual figure matching task, an auditory tone matching task, and additional cognitive tasks assessing mental rotation, choice reaction time, and nonverbal matrix reasoning. Results indicated that visual form matching was significantly associated with arithmetic performance in both visual and auditory presentation formats. These relationships remained significant after controlling for age, gender, and general cognitive factors. In contrast, auditory tone matching showed no significant association with arithmetic performance in either presentation modality. These findings indicate that the link between visual form matching and arithmetic performance is independent of the sensory modality of input, suggesting that bimodal arithmetic processing relies more on cross-modal shared symbolic representation processing or mental imagery mechanisms than on a modality-specific perceptual system. (© 2026. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.) |
| Competing Interests: | Declarations. Ethics approval: This research received approval from a local ethics board (ID: LL2024211). Informed consent: was obtained from all the participants included in the study. Preregistration: The hypotheses, methods and analysis plan were not preregistered. Permission to reproduce material from other sources: No material is copied from other sources. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests. |
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| Grant Information: | LJ112410165058 Education Project of Liaoning Provincial Department of China; 24YJC190044 General Project of Humanities and Social Sciences Research of the Ministry of Education of China; 2021ZD0200500 STI 2030-Major Projects; 62277015 Natural Science Foundation of China |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260908 Date Completed: 20260908 Latest Revision: 20261008 |
| Update Code: | 20261008 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00426-026-02362-x |
| PMID: | 42709200 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1430-2772 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s00426-026-02362-x |