TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
A1  - Shaki, Samuel
T1  - Number concepts: abstract and embodied
JF  - Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London : B, Biological sciences
N2  - Numerical knowledge, including number concepts and arithmetic procedures, seems to be a clear-cut case for abstract symbol manipulation. Yet, evidence from perceptual and motor behaviour reveals that natural number knowledge and simple arithmetic also remain closely associated with modal experiences. Following a review of behavioural, animal and neuroscience studies of number processing, we propose a revised understanding of psychological number concepts as grounded in physical constraints, embodied in experience and situated through task-specific intentions. The idea that number concepts occupy a range of positions on the continuum between abstract and modal conceptual knowledge also accounts for systematic heuristics and biases in mental arithmetic, thus inviting psycho-logical approaches to the study of the mathematical mind.
KW  - embodied cognition
KW  - mental arithmetic
KW  - mental number line
KW  - numerical cognition
KW  - SNARC effect
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0125
SN  - 0962-8436
SN  - 1471-2970
VL  - 373
IS  - 1752
PB  - Royal Society
CY  - London
ER  -