Linguistic Influences on Mathematical Cognition

• Main Author: Ann Dowker (auth)
• Other Authors: Hans-Christoph Nuerk (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Linguistic influences; number word transparency; SNARC; Numerical cognition; Language; working memory; Inversion property; syntax; semantics; Lexical Processing
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

For many years, an abstract, amodal semantic magnitude representation, largely independent of verbal linguistic representations, has been viewed as the core numerical or mathematical representation This assumption has been substantially challenged in recent years. Linguistic properties affect not on...