Geometry as a Universal Mental Construction

Space, Time and Number in the Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 319-332

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^d Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385948-8.00019-0     Document Type: Chapter

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