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- Title
Numerical abstraction: It ain't broke.
- Authors
Cantlon, Jessica F.; Cordes, Sara; Libertus, Melissa E.; Brannon, Elizabeth M.
- Abstract
The dual-code proposal of number representation put forward by Cohen Kadosh & Walsh (CK&W) accounts for only a fraction of the many modes of numerical abstraction. Contrary to their proposal, robust data from human infants and nonhuman animals indicate that abstract numerical representations are psychologically primitive. Additionally, much of the behavioral and neural data cited to support CK&W's proposal is, in fact, neutral on the issue of numerical abstraction.
- Subjects
FRACTIONS; RATIONAL numbers; ARITHMETIC; ABSTRACT thought; NUMERICAL analysis; MATHEMATICAL analysis
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2009, Vol 32, Issue 3/4, p331
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X09990513