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Number Concepts without Number Lines in an Indigenous Group of Papua New Guinea

BACKGROUND: The generic concept of number line, which maps numbers to unidimensional space, is a fundamental concept in mathematics, but its cognitive origins are uncertain. Two defining criteria of the number line are that (i) there is a mapping of each individual number (or numerosity) under consi...

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Autores principales: Núñez, Rafael, Cooperrider, Kensy, Wassmann, Jürg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22558193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035662