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Comment
. 2009 Jan 2;323(5910):38; author reply 38.
doi: 10.1126/science.1164773.

Comment on "Log or linear? Distinct intuitions of the number scale in Western and Amazonian indigene cultures"

Jessica F Cantlon  1 , Sara Cordes, Melissa E Libertus, Elizabeth M Brannon
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Comment on "Log or linear? Distinct intuitions of the number scale in Western and Amazonian indigene cultures"

Jessica F Cantlon et al. Science. .

Abstract

Dehaene et al. (Reports, 30 May 2008, p. 1217) argued that native speakers of Mundurucu, a language without a linguistic numerical system, inherently represent numerical values as a logarithmically spaced spatial continuum. However, their data do not rule out the alternative conclusion that Mundurucu speakers encode numbers linearly with scalar variability and psychologically construct space-number mappings by analogy.

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