Exact and Approximate Arithmetic in an Amazonian Indigene Group

By Pierre Pica, Cathy Lemer, Véronique Izard, Stanislas Dehaene. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Statistics and Probability

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One, two, three, four, nothing more: an investigation of the conceptual sources of the verbal counting principles. (2007, neutral): “10To our knowledge,Pica et al. (2004) report the only exception to this rule.”
A magnitude code common to numerosities and number symbols in human intraparietal cortex. (2007, background): “Behavioral findings indeed suggest that the nonsymbolic numerosity representation is present in infants and adults prior to the acquisition of number words and symbols (Brannon, 2006; Feigenson et al., 2004; Pica et al., 2004) and is thus available to serve as the foundation for symbol grounding in ”
Counting systems and the First Hilbert problem (2010, background): “This similarity becomes even more pronounced when one looks at the numeral system of another Amazonian tribe – Mundurukú – who fail in exact arithmetic with numbers larger than 5 but are able to compare and add large approximate numbers that are far beyond their naming range (see [11]).”
Natural Number and Natural Geometry (2011, background): “Is language merely a convenient source of symbols for combining information from the two number systems so as to enumerate entities exactly, or is it necessary for the construction of natural number concepts? Children and adults in remote cultures, whose languages lack words for most numbers, tend t”
Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science (2010, neutral): “This cognitive ability appears to be independent of counting practices and was shown to operate in similar ways among two Amazonian societies with very limited counting systems (Gordon 2004; Pica et al. 2004), as well as in infants and primates (e.g., Dehaene 1997).”
Origins of the brain networks for advanced mathematics in expert mathematicians (2016, background): “Indeed, even infants and uneducated adults with a drastically impoverished language for mathematics may possess abstract protomathematical intuitions of number, space, and time (5, 6).”
Numerical competence in animals, with an insight from ants (2011, background): “The language of an Amazonian indigenous group Munduruku lacks words for numbers beyond 5, and these people fail in exact arithmetic with numbers larger than 4 or 5 (Pica et al., 2004; Dehaene et al., 2008).”
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought (2008, neutral): “... evidence has reopened debate about the extent to which language influences nonlinguistic cognition in domains such as space (Levinson, 1996; Li & Gleitman, 2002; Majid, Bowerman, Kita, Haun, & Levinson, 2004), color (Gilbert, Regier, Kay, & Ivry, 2006; Kay & Kempton, 1984; Robertson, Davies, & D”