Figure 1.

Experimental and localizer tasks. (A) In the multiplication task, participants were asked to evaluate the answer of single-digit multiplication problems. Problem-sizes were either small (e.g., 3 × 4) or large (e.g., 6 × 7). (B) In the numerical processing localizer, participants decided which of two dot arrays were composed of the larger number of dots. (C) In the verbal processing localizer, American participants decided whether two visually presented English words rhymed or not (left) and Chinese participants decided whether two visually presented Chinese words rhymed or not (right). In all tasks, the first stimulus was presented for 800 ms, followed by a blank screen for 200 ms. A second stimulus was then presented for 800 ms, followed by a red fixation square for 200 ms.