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Sensitivity to Number: Reply to Gebuis and Gevers
de Hevia, Maria Dolores
Cognition, v121 n2 p253-255 Nov 2011
Past research showing a bias towards the larger non-symbolic number by adults and children in line bisection tasks (de Hevia & Spelke, 2009) has been challenged by Gebuis and Gevers, suggesting that area subtended by the stimulus and not number is responsible for the biases. I review evidence supporting the idea that although sensitivity to number might be relatively affected by visual cues, number is a major, salient property of our environment. The influence of non-numerical cues might be seen as the concurrent processing of dimensions that entail information of magnitude, without implying that number is constructed out of those dimensions.
Descriptors: Evidence, Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Adults, Children, Numbers, Personal Narratives, Cognitive Processes
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