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

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

1 LCogn - Neuroimagerie cognitive
2 Collège de France - Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale
3 SFL - Structures Formelles du Langage
4 Departement of Psychology

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 spontanesously chose number when other dimension were available. Response placement may not reflect the subjective scale for numbers, but Cantlon et al.'s proposal of a linear scale variability requires additional hypotheses that are problematic.

Mots clés: number-space mapping; number; mundurucu; linear mapping; logarithmic mapping; "number-space mapping"; "number"; "mundurucu"; "linear mapping"; "logarithmic mapping"

Domaines: Psychologie

Stanislas Dehaene, Veronique Izard, Pierre Pica, Elizabeth Spelke. "Response to Comment on "Log or Linear?" Distinct Intuitions of the Number Scale in Western and Amazonian Indigene Cultures". Science, 2009, 323 (1), pp.38-39. ⟨10.1126/science.1164878⟩. ⟨halshs-00353123⟩