The Role of Number Notation: Sign-Value Notation Number Processing is Easier than Place-Value.

Front Psychol · 2012 · PMC3503481 · PMID 23181035

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While error rate did not differ between the two notations, place-value notation comparisons were slower to solve than sign-value tasks with marginal significance, F (1,8) = 0.679, MSE = 0.015, p = 0.434 for error rate and F (1,8) = 4.182, MSE = 1,062,876, p = 0.075 for RT (Figure 10 ).

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