On numerical cognition and the inexistence of an innate concept of number but the existence of an innate concept of quantity

Tom Verguts, Qi Chen, Numerical Cognition: Learning Binds Biology to Culture, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 21, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 913-914, DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.09.004.

First, we address the issue of which quantity representations are innate. Second, we consider the role of the number list, whose characteristics are no doubt highly culturally dependent.

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