Semantic knowledge is based on the way we perceive and interact with the world. However,
the jury is still out on the question: to what degree are neuronal systems that subserve …

1.1 Abstract Concepts and Word Meanings: How to Define Them?.............................. 1 1.2
Abstraction and Abstractness......................... 3 1.2. 1 Abstractness and the Glue of …

People use space to conceptualize abstract domains like time and number. This tendency
may be a cognitive universal, but the specifics of people's implicit space–time and space …

Recent empirical investigations have revealed that finger counting is a strategy associated
with good arithmetic performance in young children. Fingers could have a special status …

Numerical cognition is a distinctive component of human intelligence such that the
observation of its practice provides a window in high‐level brain function. The modelling of …

Evidence from developmental as well as neuroscientific studies suggest that finger counting
activity plays an important role in the acquisition of numerical skills in children. It has been …

Finger counting facilitates numerical representations and mathematical processing. The
current study investigated the association between finger counting habits and number …

In early childhood, humans learn culturally specific symbols for number that allow them entry
into the world of complex numerical thinking. Yet little is known about how the brain supports …

The study has two objectives:(1) to introduce grip force recording as a new technique for
studying embodied numerical processing; and (2) to demonstrate how three competing …

Recent work in numerical cognition has shown-that number magnitude is not entirely
abstract, and at least partly rooted in embodied and situated experiences, including finger …