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- Title
Sources of mathematical thinking: behavioral and brain-imaging evidence.
- Authors
Dehaene, S; Spelke, E; Pinel, P; Stanescu, R; Tsivkin, S
- Abstract
Does the human capacity for mathematical intuition depend on linguistic competence or on visuo-spatial representations? A series of behavioral and brain-imaging experiments provides evidence for both sources. Exact arithmetic is acquired in a language-specific format, transfers poorly to a different language or to novel facts, and recruits networks involved in word-association processes. In contrast, approximate arithmetic shows language independence, relies on a sense of numerical magnitudes, and recruits bilateral areas of the parietal lobes involved in visuo-spatial processing. Mathematical intuition may emerge from the interplay of these brain systems.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 1999, Vol 284, Issue 5416, p970
- ISSN
0036-8075
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.284.5416.970