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Quantity Recognition among Speakers of an Anumeric Language
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Everett, Caleb; Madora, Keren – Cognitive Science, 2012
Recent research has suggested that the Piraha, an Amazonian tribe with a number-less language, are able to match quantities greater than 3 if the matching task does not require recall or spatial transposition. This finding contravenes previous work among the Piraha. In this study, we re-tested the Pirahas' performance in the crucial one-to-one…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Number Concepts, Number Systems, Numeracy