Cognitive Study Of Different Forms Of Digital Surface

There have been two different views on the relationship between cognition and language: the main view is that language is only the input/output systems of internal thinking, conception is formatted first, then language, and language reflects conception. The other view is that there is great difference among different languages, the variety of language decides that language may recombine cognition, and the combination may happen in some universal field.Recently, researchers have focus on whether and how much language affects cognition, especially in number cognition. In most languages, there are two types of number, one is Arab number, the other is number word. Different types of words have their own number naming systems. The Asian languages have a much simpler number naming system than most western languages.Here are three models on number cognition. According to Abstract-code Model, number processing is comprised of three types for encoding number input, calculation process, and response production systems. The basic prediction of this model is that processes for calculation are engaged after stimuli are transcoded to the abstract form; these processes should operate independently of surface format. In the Encoding-complex view, they suggest that (1)number processing uses only specific representations, such as imaginal, analogue, phonological and articulatory codes, as well as other distinct visual, graphemic, and lexical codes; (2)the various codes are associatively interconnected so that any code potentially has the capacity to activate other representations within the number complex.;(3)different codes can potentially subserve comprehension, production and such calculation functions as retrieval of numerical facts and relations. According to the Triple-code Theory, number processing entails an analog magnitude representation, a visual-Arabic number form, and an auditory- verbal code system. The three types of codes may be translated from one to another without the mediation of an abstract, modality-independent code. In this model, after input is transcoded into the appropriate internal representation, number processing proceeds independently of the input format.In this study, 2 experiments are served for whether different number formats can affect number cognition. Experiment 1 is designed to check the affection coming from simple addition problems in 4 types word formats within 1-30. Experiment 2 is designed to know how persons get some information on months on the same language background, and how persons get some information on months on the different language backgrounds. The results of experiments are demonstrated as following:(1)Different number surface forms affect the processing and strategy choices when persons solve simple addition problems.(2)Different number surface forms affect the retrieval of information on months.(3)The familiarity of numbers influences the number cognition.(4)The extent of the difficulty of problems influences the number cognition.