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What is still needed? On nativist proposals for acquiring concepts of natural numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2008

Wen-Chi Chiang
Wen-Chi Chiang
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi 62102, [email protected]://www.psy.ccu.edu.tw/~psywcc/
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Abstract

Rips et al.'s analyses have boosted the plausibility of proposals that the human mind embodies some critical properties of natural numbers. I suggest that such proposals can be further evaluated by infant studies, neuropsychological data, and evolution-based considerations, and additionally, that Rips et al.'s model may need to be modified in order to more completely reflect infants' quantitative abilities.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 6 , December 2008 , pp. 646 - 647
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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