Numerical Cognition

Zusatztext

Over the past few decades, researchers have sought to address an array of fundamental issues regarding the human capacity for numerical cognition. Does the human mind contain innate representations of numbers and numerical properties? Do our perceptual states represent number? How do children acquire number concepts in the first few years of life? How does natural language encode number? What impact do cultural products, such as numeral systems and counting procedures, exert on human cognition? Such issues have been the subject of intensive research in several disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, and behavioral ecology. Yet the lines of communication between these fields have often been limited. Numerical Cognition: Debates & Disputes brings together thirty-two newly commissioned chapters by leading researchers from across these various fields. In doing so, it aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and to make insights from each of the contributing disciplines available to a broad academic audience.

Autorenportrait

Joonkoo Park, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Park is broadly interested in uniquely human cognition and brings a wealth of expertise to investigating numerical cognition using multiple, integrated methodologies. Eric Snyder, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University. Dr. Snyder specializes in the philosophy of language, logic, and the philosophy of mathematics, and has numerous publications of relevance to numerical cognition, especially concerning the semantics of number words. Richard Samuels, PhD, is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the Ohio State University. Dr. Samuels is a philosopher of mind and philosopher of science and has published extensively on issues concerning cognitive development, reasoning, modularity, computational models in cognitive science, and number cognition. 

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