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"Exact and Approximative Arithmetic in an Amazonian Indigene Group"

Stanislas Dehaene
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Veronique Izard

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Is calculation possible without language ? Or is the human ability for arithmetic dependent on the language faculty ? To clarify the relation between language and arithmetic, we studied numerical cognition in speakers of munduruku, an Amazonian language with a very small lexicon of numbers words. Our results imply a distinction between a non-verbal system of number approximation and a language-based counting system for exact number and arithmetic.
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hal-00206219 , version 1 (20-04-2017)

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Pierre Pica, Cathy Lemer, Stanislas Dehaene, Veronique Izard. "Exact and Approximative Arithmetic in an Amazonian Indigene Group". Science, 2004, 306 (5695), pp.499-503. ⟨10.1126/science.1102085⟩. ⟨hal-00206219⟩
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