Dehaene et al. (Reports, 30 May 2008, p. 1217) argued that native speakers of Mundurucu, a language without a linguistic numerical system, inherently represent numerical values as a logarithmically spaced spatial continuum. However, their data do not rule out the alternative conclusion that Mundurucu speakers encode numbers linearly with scalar variability and psychologically construct space-number mappings by analogy.
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Cantlon, J. F., Cordes, S., Libertus, M. E., & Brannon, E. M. (2009, January 2). Comment on “Log or linear? Distinct intuitions of the number scale in western and Amazonian indigene cultures.” Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1164773
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