Numbers are present in every part of modern society and the human capacity to use
numbers is unparalleled in other species. Understanding the mental and neural …

To English speakers, the distinctions between blue and green, cup and glass, or cut and
break seem self‐evident. The intuition is that these words label categories that have an …

Digitale Informationstechnik ist in unserer Gesellschaft allgegenwärtig; sie prägt mittlerweile
unser Leben. Schon vor einigen Jahren verbrachten junge Menschen in Deutschland gut …

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 …

Even though mathematics is considered one of the most abstract domains of human
cognition, recent work on embodiment of mathematics has shown that we make sense of …

Mathematics skills are associated with future employment, well-being, and quality of life.
However, many adults and children fail to learn the mathematics skills they require. To …

We investigate number and arithmetic learning among a Bolivian indigenous people, the
Tsimane', for whom formal schooling is comparatively recent in history and variable in both …

This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of
the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume deals with a …

In this study, we investigate in children the neural underpinnings of finger representation
and finger movement involved in single-digit arithmetic problems. Evidence suggests that …

Before learning the cardinal principle (knowing that the last word reached when counting a
set represents the size of the whole set), children do not use number words accurately to …