The Impact of Different Kind of Training on Accuracy Responses in a Novel Mathematical System

When performing numerical calculation people are influenced by the particular perceptual form of the representations of abstract entities. Based on Landy and Goldstone (2007), we were interested to see whether there was a difference on accuracy between three groups of participants that were given different kinds of training stimuli while learning a novel mathematical system. Given a specific modality of spacing the operands—consistent, inconsistent or neutral regarding the classic order of precedence, we asked whether participants would have different performance during testing. We found no significant difference. In the end, the results of the experiment are discussed.