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8 - Materiality in Cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2023

Karenleigh A. Overmann
Foreword by
Tom Wynn
Karenleigh A. Overmann
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Tom Wynn
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
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In this chapter, we will discuss the theoretical framework – Material Engagement Theory (MET) – used in analyzing material forms as a component of numerical cognition.1 MET is an approach to the study of material culture that assumes it plays a role in human cognition. MET is particularly interested in the roles that tools play in cognition, and how those roles would have influenced human cognitive evolution. In taking this perspective, MET differs from traditional archaeological and cognitive approaches to the study of the mind, both of which have tended to see the mind as something distinct and qualitatively different from the material world.

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The Materiality of Numbers
Emergence and Elaboration from Prehistory to Present
 , pp. 176 - 194
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Materiality in Cognition
  • Karenleigh A. Overmann, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  • Foreword by Tom Wynn, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  • Book: The Materiality of Numbers
  • Online publication: 11 May 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009361262.010
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  • Materiality in Cognition
  • Karenleigh A. Overmann, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  • Foreword by Tom Wynn, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  • Book: The Materiality of Numbers
  • Online publication: 11 May 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009361262.010
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  • Materiality in Cognition
  • Karenleigh A. Overmann, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  • Foreword by Tom Wynn, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  • Book: The Materiality of Numbers
  • Online publication: 11 May 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009361262.010
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