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

DOI10.1126/science.1156540zbMath1226.01002OpenAlexW2163199882WikidataQ24656417 ScholiaQ24656417MaRDI QIDQ3101709

Pierre Pica, Stanislas Dehaene, Véronique Izard, Elizabeth Spelke

Publication date: 30 November 2011

Published in: Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1156540

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methodology of mathematics (00A35) Sociological aspects of learning (aspects of mathematics education) (97C60) History of mathematics of the indigenous cultures of the Americas (01A12) Ethnomathematics (general) (01A07)

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