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SUBMITTER: Spaepen E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3044352 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Spaepen Elizabet E Coppola Marie M Spelke Elizabeth S ES Carey Susan E SE Goldin-Meadow Susan S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110207 8
Cross-cultural studies suggest that access to a conventional language containing words that can be used for counting is essential to develop representations of large exact numbers. However, cultures that lack a conventional counting system typically differ from cultures that have such systems, not only in language but also in many other ways. As a result, it is difficult to isolate the effects of language on the development of number representations. Here we examine the numerical abilities of in ...[more]