HTML templates for five different acceptability judgment tasks (magnitude estimation, 7-point scale, yes no, forced choice, and auditory) can be found on the author's Web site (currently, www.ling.cogsci.uci.edu/~jsprouse/tools/amt/).
Interestingly, directly contrasting the two semantic tasks magnitude comparison (magnitude-relevant) and parity judgement (magnitude-irrelevant) revealed a left lateralized predominance within the IPS for the processing of parity information as compared to a right lateralization for number magnitude for auditorily presented number words.
Importantly, in contrast to the Iowa Gambling Task, the magnitude of potential wins and losses was explicitly present in our task, and therefore no learning of the reward contingencies was needed.
Further comparative research, with more complex ordinal tasks involving magnitude estimation is needed.
This finding again supports the assumption that in the mental decision tasks (here magnitude comparison) participants indeed executed additional mental processes related to processing the semantics of the presented numbers.
However, Eger and colleagues [ 2] came to this conclusion without explicitly contrasting IPS activation in a task for which magnitude information is relevant to IPS activation in a task for which magnitude information is irrelevant.
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