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10881553

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-7-25
pubmed:abstractText
This study questions the evidence that a parity rule is used during the verification of multiplication. Previous studies reported that products are rejected faster when they violate the expected parity, which was attributed to the use of a rule (Krueger, 1986; Lemaire & Fayol, 1995). This experiment tested an alternative explanation of this effect: the familiarity hypothesis. Fifty subjects participated in a verification task with contrasting types of problems (even x even, odd x odd, mixed). Some aspects of our results constitute evidence against the use of the parity rule: False even answers were rejected slowly, even when the two operands were odd. We suggest that the odd-even effect in verification of multiplication could not be due to the use of the parity rule, but rather to a familiarity with even numbers (three quarters of products are indeed even).
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0090-502X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
28
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
358-65
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
The odd-even effect in multiplication: parity rule or familiarity with even numbers?
pubmed:affiliation
Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculté de Psychologie, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. lochy@neco.ucl.ac.be
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't