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The innate schema of natural numbers does not explain historical, cultural, and developmental differences

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Noël, Marie-Pascale [UCL] Grégoire, Jacques [UCL] Meert, Gaëlle [UCL] Seron, Xavier [UCL]

Rips et al.'s propsoition cannot account for the facts that (1) a historical look at the word number systems suggests that the concept of natural number has been progressively elaborated; (2) people from cultures without an elaborate counting system do not master the concept of natural numbers; (3) children take time to master natural numbers; and (4) the competing advantage of the postulated math schema in the natural selection process is not obivous.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Éditorial
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2008
Language Anglais
Journal information "Behavioral and Brain Sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary" - Vol. 31, no. 6, p. 664-665 (2008)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Cambridge Univ Press (New York)
issn 0140-525X
e-issn 1469-1825
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - PSP/PSP - Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation
Links
  1. Gordon P., Numerical Cognition Without Words: Evidence from Amazonia, 10.1126/science.1094492
  2. Hurford, Language and number: The emergence of a cognitive system (1987)
  3. Pica P., Exact and Approximate Arithmetic in an Amazonian Indigene Group, 10.1126/science.1102085
  4. Wassmann Jürg, Dasen Pierre R., Yupno Number System and Counting, 10.1177/0022022194251005
Bibliographic reference Noël, Marie-Pascale ; Grégoire, Jacques ; Meert, Gaëlle ; Seron, Xavier. The innate schema of natural numbers does not explain historical, cultural, and developmental differences. In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary, Vol. 31, no. 6, p. 664-665 (2008)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/35994