Publication Date:
2009-01-03
Description:
Dehaene et al. (Reports, 30 May 2008, p. 1217) argued that native speakers of Mundurucu, a language without a linguistic numerical system, inherently represent numerical values as a logarithmically spaced spatial continuum. However, their data do not rule out the alternative conclusion that Mundurucu speakers encode numbers linearly with scalar variability and psychologically construct space-number mappings by analogy.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3393850/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3393850/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cantlon, Jessica F -- Cordes, Sara -- Libertus, Melissa E -- Brannon, Elizabeth M -- R37 HD023103/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Jan 2;323(5910):38; author reply 38. doi: 10.1126/science.1164773.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. jfc2@duke.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19119201" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Brazil
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Humans
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*Indians, South American
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*Intuition
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*Language
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*Mathematical Concepts
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
