title: Comment on "Log or linear? Distinct intuitions of the number scale in Western and Amazonian indigene cultures".
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. jfc2@duke.edu
authors.forename: Jessica F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Cantlon
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cordes
authors.forename: Melissa E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Libertus
authors.forename: Elizabeth M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Brannon
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D006801:Humans; D007199:Indians, South American; D019545:Intuition; D007802:Language; D055641:Mathematical Concepts