Log or linear? Distinct intuitions of the number scale in western and Amazonian indigene cultures

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5880, 2008, Pages 1217-1220

  Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b,c,d   Izard, Véronique ^a,b,d,e   Spelke, Elizabeth ^e   Pica, Pierre ^f  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; EDUCATION; MAPPING; MATHEMATICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; BRAZIL; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; INTUITION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BRAZIL; CHILD; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; INTUITION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 45849104230     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1156540     Document Type: Article

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31. This work is part of a larger project on the nature of quantification. It is based on psychological experiments and linguistics studies in the Mundurucu territory (Pará, Brazil) under the supervision of P.P., in accordance with the Consehlo de Desenvolvimento Cientifico et Tecnologicico and the Fundacão do Indio (Funaï; Processo 2857/04). We thank the Nucleo de Documentação e Pesquisa (Funaï), L. Braga, A. Ramos, and C. Romeiro for useful discussion and advice and A. Arnor, M. Karu, Y.-h. Liu, R. M. Sullivan, and C. Tawe for help with data collection. Supported by INSERM, the Département des Sciences Humaines et Sociales of CNRS (P.P.), NIH (E.S.), and a McDonnell Foundation centennial fellowship (S.D.).