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ArticlePsychology research and behavior management2020

Inhibiting the Whole Number Bias in a Fraction Comparison Task: An Event-Related Potential Study.

Xinchen Fu, Xiaodong Li, Ping Xu, Jie Zeng

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Xinchen Fu *Faculty of Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China.
Xiaodong Li *School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, People's Republic of China.
Ping XuSchool of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, People's Republic of China.
Jie ZengSchool of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-4174-7800

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Abstract

introductionPeople often use heuristics derived from natural number tasks to solve fraction comparison tasks. For instance, one may falsely consider a fraction with a larger natural number to be the larger in magnitude, as in the case of 1/5 vs 1/4. We hypothesized that inhibitory control was needed to overcome this type of bias.

methodsTo test the hypothesis, Event-related potentials (ERP) were collected when participants were conducting fraction comparison tasks that designed with the negative priming paradigm. Twenty-eight adult participants performed three types of fraction comparison tasks: congruent items, incongruent items and neutral items.

resultsWe found a negative priming effect in terms of response time. Consistently, ERP results demonstrated larger N1 and N2 amplitudes and a smaller P3 amplitude in the test trial than in the control trial.

conclusionThese findings indicated that adults still need to inhibit the "larger natural number-larger fraction" misleading strategy when solving fraction comparison tasks with common components.

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event-related potentialfraction comparisonheuristics strategyinhibitory controlnegative priming

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PMCPMC7064278

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