Comment on "Log or linear? Distinct intuitions of the number scale in Western and Amazonian indigene cultures".
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Indians, South American
- Intuition
- Language
- Mathematical Concepts