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Comment on "Log or Linear? Distinct Intuitions of the Number Scale in Western and Amazonian Indigene Cultures"

Author(s) -

Jessica F. Cantlon,

Sara Cordes,

Melissa E. Libertus,

Elizabeth M. Bran

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.1164773

Subject(s) - analogy , amazonian , scalar (mathematics) , construct (python library) , mathematics , physics , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , amazon rainforest , ecology , biology , geometry , programming language

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.

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