Enculturation and the historical origins of number words and concepts.
In the literature on enculturation—the thesis according to which higher cognitive capacities result from transformations in the brain driven by culture—numerical cognition is often cited as an example. A consequence of the enculturation account for numerical cognition is that individuals cannot acqu...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 199; no. 3/4; pp. 9257 - 9288 |
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