"Response to Nuñez"

Izard Veronique (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) , Stanislas Dehaene (1, 2, 3, 4) , Elizabeth Spelke (5) , Pierre Pica (6)

1 LCogn - Neuroimagerie cognitive
2 NEUROSPIN - Service NEUROSPIN
3 IFR 49 - IFR de Neuroimagerie Fonctionnelle
4 Collège de France - Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale
5 Departement of Psychology
6 SFL - Structures Formelles du Langage

We agree with Nuñez that the Mundurucu do not master the formal propreties of number lines and logarithms, but as the term "intuition" implies, they spontaneously experience a logarithmic mapping of number to space as natural and "feeling right."

Keywords: culture; linear mapping; education; number; number-space mapping; logarithmic mapping

Domains: Linguistics; Psychology

Izard Veronique, Stanislas Dehaene, Elizabeth Spelke, Pierre Pica. "Response to Nuñez": "Reading between the Number lines". Science, 2008, 321 (5894), pp.1293-1294. ⟨10.1126/Science.321.5894.1293⟩. ⟨halshs-00353176⟩