Open Access<p>Inhibiting the Whole Number Bias in a Fraction Comparison Task: An Event-Related Potential Study</p>
Author(s) -
Xinchen Fu,
Xiaodong Li,
Xu Ping,
Jie Zeng
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychology research and behavior management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 30
ISSN - 1179-1578
DOI - 10.2147/prbm.s240263
Subject(s) - fraction (chemistry) , heuristics , task (project management) , priming (agriculture) , psychology , event related potential , type i and type ii errors , cognitive psychology , statistics , computer science , mathematics , neuroscience , cognition , biology , chemistry , botany , germination , management , organic chemistry , economics , operating system
People 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.