Numbers and the Making of Us
Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7097982 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caleb Everett (0000-0002-5889-3935, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 312 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Numbers and the Making of Us (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.4159/9780674979185 |
| OpenAlex | W2889601024 |
| Open Library | OL29762174M |
| ISBN | 9780674979185 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
Number concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely: recent research shows that most specific quantities are not perceived in the absence of a number system. Numbers are not innate or universal; yet without them, the world as we know it would not exist
Astronomy · Course (navigation · Physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Counting · Cross-cultural studies · Number concept · Numeration
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Friedrich Engels’ Importance for Contemporary Materialist Epistemology
Cognitive Structuralism
Classifiers can be for numerals or nouns
On Radical Enactivist Accounts of Arithmetical Cognition
La sociologie comme science cognitive
Situated Counting
A Pattern Theory of Scaffolding
Where Does Cardinality Come From
Genealogy and cognitive development
Why do numbers exist? A psychologist constructivist account
Numbers/Data
Numerical place switching
On What Ground Do Thin Objects Exist? In Search of the Cognitive Foundation of Number Concepts
Complexity counts
Numbers and Bodies
Contact-Induced Complexification in the Gender System of Istro-Romanian
One Decade of the Journal of Language Contact
Affective learning for effective learning? Data, numbers and teachers’ learning
The quandary of quantification
Bootstrapping of integer concepts
The cultural evolution of mind-modelling
A fresh look at research strategies in computational cognitive science
Experiment-driven rationalism
What’s new
The cerebral, extra-cerebral bodily, and socio-cultural dimensions of enculturated arithmetical cognition
Reckonings
Cognitive Innovation, Cumulative Cultural Evolution, and Enculturation
Etnológica y etnomatemática
Understanding through the Numbers
The Sound Systems of Languages Adapt, But to What Extent
Cifras de papel
O papel da cultura na língua(gem) e na cognição
From Patterns in Language to Patterns in Thought
The role of culture in language and cognition
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |