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A hierarchical syntactic tree for numbers

2026-03-07

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<p>Hierarchical representations of meaningful information are a unique property of human cognition and were studied extensively for language. Here, we show that meaning-carrying hierarchical representations exist in another, non-linguistic domain, namely multi-digit numbers. Participants heard 3- to 6-digit numbers and wrote down each number on paper with a digitizing pen. We recorded the inter-digit temporal gaps...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2z7jf_v1

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