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Recursive sequence generation in monkeys, children, U.S. adults, and native Amazonians
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In: Sci Adv (2020)
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Math, monkeys, and the developing brain
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Thirty thousand years ago, humans kept track of numerical quantities by carving slashes on fragments of bone. It took approximately 25,000 y for the first iconic written numerals to emerge among human cultures (e.g., Sumerian cuneiform). Now, children acquire the meanings of verbal counting words, Arabic numerals, written number words, and the procedures of basic arithmetic operations, such as addition and subtraction, in just 6 y (between ages 2 and 8). What cognitive abilities enabled our ancestors to record tallies in the first place? Additionally, what cognitive abilities allow children to rapidly acquire the formal mathematics knowledge that took our ancestors many millennia to invent? Current research aims to discover the origins and organization of numerical information in humans using clues from child development, the organization of the human brain, and animal cognition.
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In the Light of Evolution VI: Brain and Behavior Sackler Colloquium
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3386867 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201893109 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22723349
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The evolution of numerical cognition: From number neurons to linguistic quantifiers
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