"Response to Nuñez"

We agree with Nuñez that the Mundurucu do not master the formal propreties of number lines and logarithms, but as the term "intuition" implies, they spontaneously experience a logarithmic mapping of number to space as natural and "feeling right."

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culture linear mapping education number number-space mapping logarithmic mapping

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Linguistics Psychology

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DOI : 10.1126/Science.321.5894.1293

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Izard Veronique, Stanislas Dehaene, Elizabeth Spelke, Pierre Pica. "Response to Nuñez". Science, 2008, 321 (5894), pp.1293-1294. ⟨10.1126/Science.321.5894.1293⟩. ⟨halshs-00353176⟩

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