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Symbols in numbers: From numerals to magnitude information

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2009

Oliver Lindemann ,
Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer  and
Harold Bekkering
Oliver Lindemann
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [email protected]@[email protected]
Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [email protected]@[email protected]
Harold Bekkering
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [email protected]@[email protected]
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Abstract

A dual-code model of number processing needs to take into account the difference between a number symbol and its meaning. The transition of automatic non-abstract number representations into intentional abstract representations could be conceptualized as a translation of perceptual asemantic representations of numerals into semantic representations of the associated magnitude information. The controversy about the nature of number representations should be thus related to theories on embodied grounding of symbols.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 3-4 , August 2009 , pp. 341 - 342
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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