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Math schemata and the origins of number representations
2008
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
The contrast Rips et al. draw between "bottom-up" and "top-down" approaches to understanding the origin of the capacity for representing natural number is a false dichotomy. Its plausibility depends upon the sketchiness of the authors' own proposal. At least some of the proposals they characterize as bottom-up are worked-out versions of the very top-down position they advocate. Finally, they deny that the structures that these putative bottom-up proposals consider to be sources of natural
doi:10.1017/s0140525x08005608
pmid:25035525
pmcid:PMC4097143
fatcat:2udpffgspzcxhjsd4rumlpqbdq