What is it about?
People can learn to associate frequent occurrences of color and number categories without any awareness of their relationship. In our experiments, participants are asked to do a number-related task, without being told about the colors in which the numbers may appear.
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Why is it important?
We replicate that color-association learning is better for the category of parity than for individual numbers, and extend this finding to magnitude, with potential interactions between parity- and magnitude-associated colors.
Perspectives
Category-level associations could be considered when designing the colors of number learning tools.
Talia Retter
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This page is a summary of: Categorical consistency of parity and magnitude facilitates implicit learning of color-number associations, PLOS One, September 2025, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0331960.
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