Response to Comment on "Log or Linear? Distinct Intuitions of the Number Scale in Western and Amazonian Indigene Cultures"

The performance of the Mundurucu on the number-space task may exemplify a general competence for drawing analogies between space and other linear dimensions, but Mundurucu participants spontaneously chose number when other dimensions were available. Response placement may not reflect the subjective...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2009-01, Vol.323 (5910), p.38c-38
Main Authors: Dehaene, Stanislas, Izard, Véronique, Pica, Pierre, Spelke, Elizabeth
Format: Article
Language:English
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Humanities and Social Sciences
Psychology
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Summary:The performance of the Mundurucu on the number-space task may exemplify a general competence for drawing analogies between space and other linear dimensions, but Mundurucu participants spontaneously chose number when other dimensions were available. Response placement may not reflect the subjective scale for numbers, but Cantlon et al.'s proposal of a linear scale with scalar variability requires additional hypotheses that are problematic. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.1164878