Hierarchical structure priming from mathematics to two- and three-site relative clause attachment.

A number of recent studies found evidence for shared structural representations across different cognitive domains such as mathematics, music, and language. For instance, Scheepers et al. (2011) showed that English speakers' choices of relative clause (RC) attachments in partial sentences like The tourist guide mentioned the bells of the church that … can be influenced by the structure of previously solved prime equations such as 80-(9 + 1) × 5 (making high RC-attachments more likely) versus 80-9 + 1 × 5 (making low RC-attachments more likely).