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Schneider, Elisa; Maruyama, Masaki; Dehaene, Stanislas; Sigman, Mariano – Cognition, 2012
Mathematics shares with language an essential reliance on the human capacity for recursion, permitting the generation of an infinite range of embedded expressions from a finite set of symbols. We studied the role of syntax in arithmetic thinking, a neglected component of numerical cognition, by examining eye movement sequences during the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Arithmetic, Algebra, Syntax