Number concepts: abstract and embodied
- 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.
Verfasserangaben: | Martin H. FischerORCiDGND, Samuel ShakiORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0125 |
ISSN: | 0962-8436 |
ISSN: | 1471-2970 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29914993 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London : B, Biological sciences |
Verlag: | Royal Society |
Verlagsort: | London |
Publikationstyp: | Rezension |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 18.06.2018 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 18.10.2021 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | SNARC effect; embodied cognition; mental arithmetic; mental number line; numerical cognition |
Band: | 373 |
Ausgabe: | 1752 |
Seitenanzahl: | 8 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |