While a major aim of cognitive science is to understand human cognition, our conclusions
are based on unrepresentative samples of the world's population. A new wave of cross …

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 …

Recent theories propose that cognition is embodied in the sense that it is critically based on
reinstatements of external (perception) and internal states (proprioception) as well as bodily …

Spatial–numerical associations (SNAs) are prevalent yet their origin is poorly understood.
We first consider the possible prime role of reading habits in sha** SNAs and list three …

Research on mathematics education has shown that learners' actions can influence how
they think and vice versa. Much of this work has been rooted in the use of manipulatives …

Behavioral genetics and cultural evolution have both revolutionized our understanding of
human behavior–largely independent of each other. Here, we reconcile these two fields …

Grounded theories assume that there is no central module for cognition. According to this
view, all cognitive phenomena, including those considered the province of amodal cognition …

Studies like the one conducted by Domahs et al.(2010, in Cognition) corroborate that finger
counting habits affect how numbers are processed, and legitimize the assumption that this …

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 …

There is much recent interest in the idea that we represent our knowledge together with the
sensory and motor features that were activated during its acquisition. This paper reviews the …