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Numbers Language And The Human Mind

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Author : Heike Wiese
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-12-11

Numbers Language And The Human Mind written by Heike Wiese and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

What constitutes our number concept? What makes it possible for us to employ numbers the way we do; which mental faculties contribute to our grasp of numbers? What do we share with other species, and what is specific to humans? How does our language faculty come into the picture? This 2003 book addresses these questions and discusses the relationship between numerical thinking and the human language faculty, providing psychological, linguistic and philosophical perspectives on number, its evolution and its development in children. Heike Wiese argues that language as a human faculty plays a crucial role in the emergence of systematic numerical thinking. She characterises number sequences as powerful and highly flexible mental tools that are unique to humans and shows that it is language that enables us to go beyond the perception of numerosity and to develop such mental tools.

Numbers Language And The Human Mind

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Author : Heike Wiese
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-09

Numbers Language And The Human Mind written by Heike Wiese and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

What constitutes our concept of numbers and makes it possible for us to work with them the way we do? Which mental faculties contribute to our grasp? What qualities do we share with other species, and which ones are specific to us? This book addresses these questions to reveal that language plays a crucial role in the development of systematic number concepts. It analyzes the relationship between numerical thinking and the human language faculty, providing psychological, linguistic, and philosophical perspectives on numbers, their evolution, and development in children.

Numbers Language And The Human Mind

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Author : Heike Wiese
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Numbers Language And The Human Mind written by Heike Wiese and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.

This book discusses the relationship between numerical thinking and the human language faculty, providing psychological, linguistic, and philosophical perspectives on number, its evolution, and its development in children.

A Brain For Numbers

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Author : Andreas Nieder
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19

A Brain For Numbers written by Andreas Nieder and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with Science categories.

How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through both evolution and development. Humans' understanding of numbers is intuitive. Infants are able to estimate and calculate even before they learn the words for numbers. How have we come to possess this talent for numbers? In A Brain for Numbers, Andreas Nieder explains how our brains process numbers. He reports that numerical competency is deeply rooted in our biological ancestry; it can be traced through both the evolution of our species and the development of our individual minds. It is not, as it has been traditionally explained, based on our ability to use language. We owe our symbolic mathematical skills to the nonsymbolic numerical abilities that we inherited from our ancestors. The principles of mathematics, Nieder tells us, are reflections of the innate dispositions wired into the brain. Nieder explores how the workings of the brain give rise to numerical competence, tracing flair for numbers to dedicated “number neurons” in the brain. Drawing on a range of methods including brain imaging techniques, behavioral experiments, and twin studies, he outlines a new, integrated understanding of the talent for numbers. Along the way, he compares the numerical capabilities of humans and animals, and discusses the benefits animals reap from such a capability. He shows how the neurobiological roots of the brain's nonverbal quantification capacity are the evolutionary foundation of more elaborate numerical skills. He discusses how number signs and symbols are represented in the brain; calculation capability and the “neuromythology” of mathematical genius; the “start-up tools” for counting and developmental of dyscalculia (a number disorder analogous to the reading disorder dyslexia); and how the brain processes the abstract concept of zero.

Numbers And Numeracy In The Greek Polis

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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-12-20

Numbers And Numeracy In The Greek Polis written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-20 with History categories.

We tend to think of numbers as inherently objective and precise. Yet the diverse ways in which ancient Greeks used numbers illustrates that counting is actually shaped by context-specific and culturally-dependent choices: what should be counted and how, who should count, and how should the results be shared? This volume is the first to focus on the generation and use of numbers in the polis to quantify, communicate and persuade. Its papers demonstrate the rich insights that can be gained into ancient Greek societies by reappraising seemingly straightforward examples of quantification as reflections of daily life and cultural understandings.

Language And Culture In Mathematical Cognition

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Author : Daniel B. Berch
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2018-07-27

Language And Culture In Mathematical Cognition written by Daniel B. Berch and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-27 with Psychology categories.

Language and Culture in Mathematical Cognition, First Edition focuses on the role of linguistic and cultural factors in math cognition and development. It covers a wide range of topics, including analogical mapping in numerical development, arithmetic fact retrieval in the bilingual brain, cross-cultural comparisons of mathematics achievement, the shaping of numerical processing by number word construction, the influence of Head Start programs, the mathematical skills of children with specific language impairments, the role of culture and language in creating associations between number and space, and electrophysiological studies of linguistic traces in core knowledge at the neural level. - Includes cutting-edge findings, innovative measures, recent methodological advances and groundbreaking theoretical developments - Synthesizes research from various subdomains of math cognition research - Covers the full complement of research in mathematical thinking and learning - Informs researchers, scholars, educators, students and policymakers

Numbers As Cognitive Tools

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Author : César Frederico dos Santos
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-08-19

Numbers As Cognitive Tools written by César Frederico dos Santos and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-19 with Mathematics categories.

This books offers a novel account of the nature of numbers firmly grounded in results from numerical cognition and the philosophy of mathematics. Drawing on empirical data on the human experience of what we call “numbers,” the author shows that numbers do not exist as abstract objects, but that the idea that they do is a useful cognitive tool. Contrary to the platonist view, according to which arithmetic is true of a realm of abstract entities, the nominalistic account presented in this book shows arithmetic to be true of descriptions of structural properties of techniques such as counting and calculating procedures. This book is of interest to both philosophers and cognitive scientists who want to have a deeper understanding of what numbers are.

Verbal Minds

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Author : Toni Gomila
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2011-12-05

Verbal Minds written by Toni Gomila and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Ten years ago, the hegemonic idea was that language was a kind of independent module within the mind, a sort of "print-out" of whatever cognitive activity was taking place, but without any influence whatsoever in that activity. While this view is still held, evidence amassed in the last 10 years suggests another view of their inter-relationships, even though exactly which one is not clear yet, in part because of the lack of a unified view, and in part because of the inertia of the previous position, in part because all this evidence must be considered together. An increasing number of researchers are paying attention to the issues involved as the human language specificity may provide a clue to understand what makes humans "smart," to account for the singularities of human cognition. This book provides a comprehensive review of the multiple developments that have taken place in the last 10 years on the question of the relationships between language and thought and integrates them into a coherent framework. It will be relevant for anyone working in the sciences of languages. - Synthesizes recent research - Provides an integrated view of cognitive architecture - Explains the relationships between language and thought

Verbal Minds

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Author : Antoni Gomila
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2011-12-05

Verbal Minds written by Antoni Gomila and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Language has most consistently been chosen as the key to understanding the human mind and to providing the building blocks necessary for achieving other specificities in human cognition: abstract/propositional thought, recursivity, decoupling of current situation, creativity, and conscious control. It is not so clear how language influences human cognition. This book discusses research regarding verbal ability and cognition.

Advances In Cognitive Neuroscience Of Numerical And Mathematical Processing

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Author : Filip Van Opstal
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2012-09-12

Advances In Cognitive Neuroscience Of Numerical And Mathematical Processing written by Filip Van Opstal and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-12 with categories.

In this special issue, the most recent advances in the domain of numerical cognition will be presented. During the last decades, our understanding of how numbers are processed increased dramatically with the arrival of different imaging techniques and neurophysiological experiments in humans and monkeys. We are now starting to build up a clearer picture of how numbers are represented in the brain, how this representation develops in the course of a lifetime, how numbers are embedded in other cognitive features like attention, spatial memory, etc., and how this eventually leads to our capability to perform complex mathematics. Ultimately, this accumulation of knowledge might provide us with an understanding of why numbers are problematic for some people. This special issue deals with all aspects of numerical cognition: findings on the basic neural responses to magnitudes, the link between numbers, space, time, attention, action, etc., mathematical processing, numerical development, in healthy and clinical populations. This special issue solicits contributions from the field of neurobiology, neuropsychology, and behavioral and computational neuroscience that will increase our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying numerical cognition