Why the verbal counting principles are constructed out of representations of small sets of individuals: A reply to Gallistel

Corre, Mathieu Le; Carey, Susan

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2007.09.008

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“…This system, known as the 'accumulator model' or 'analogue-magnitude system', is used for estimating how different large numbers compare to each other (Meck and Church 1983;Gallistel and Gelman 2000) and does not require that the individual have access to either a representation of a specific number or to any particular information pertaining to a specific number (Le Corre and Carey 2008). This model is based on the premise that memory is an inherently noisy medium.…”

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The role of numerical competence in a specialized predatory strategy of an araneophagic spider

Nelson

Jackson

2012

Anim Cogn

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Although a wide range of vertebrates have been considered in research on numerical competence, little is known about the role of number-related decisions in the predatory strategies of invertebrates. Here, we investigate how numerical competence is expressed in a highly specialized predatory strategy adopted by the small juveniles of Portia africana when practicing communal predation, with the prey being another spider, Oecobius amboseli. Two or more P. africana juveniles sometimes settle by the same oecobiid nest and then share the meal after one individual captures the oecobiid. Experiments were designed to clarify how these predators use number-related cues in conjunction with non-numerical cues when deciding whether to settle at a nest. We used lures (dead spiders positioned in lifelike posture) arranged in a series of 24 different scenes defined by the type, configuration and especially number of lures. On the whole, our findings suggest that P. africana juveniles base settling decisions on the specific number of already settled conspecific juveniles at the nest and express a preference for settling when the number is one instead of zero, two or three. By varying the size of the already settled juveniles and their positions around the nest, we show that factors related to continuous variables and stimulus configuration are unlikely explanations for our findings.

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The role of numerical competence in a specialized predatory strategy of an araneophagic spider

Nelson

Jackson

2012

Anim Cogn

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“…But, even preceding this earliest understanding, analysing the activity that children between 30 and 42 months old display when they are requested to gather sets of no more than four objects, there is no alternative but to admit that such young children have interiorized an essential counting understanding (Le Corre & Carey, 2007;Le Corre & Carey, 2008;Sarnecka & Carey, 2008;Sarnecka & Lee, 2009;Villarroel et al, 2009;Wynn, 1992). Furthermore, this primordial counting ability is characterised by the fact that no counting principle is exteriorized until children are able to put together four or more items correctly, almost by subitizing the exact cardinal value.…”

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“…However, this point of view is strongly argued by the discontinuous account which, firstly, considers significant verbal counting advents as children's attempt to make sense of the verbal words (rather than as a consequence of an innate mechanism) and, secondly, affords a foremost role in this process to parallel individuation system (Le Corre & Carey, 2007Le Corre et al, 2006). Moreover, this stand is considered the best way to understand the knower-levels phenomenon described during the development of verbal counting (Le Corre & Carey, 2008;Sarnecka & Lee, 2009). …”

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“…Moving on to the question of how the development of counting occurs, it turns out to be clear that this topic is far from being able to be considered as resolved (some examples of this debate can be found in Gallistel, 2007;Gelman & Gallistel, 2004;Le Corre & Carey, 2008). Some scholars point out the acquirement of verbal counting as a continuous and innate process led by the analogue-magnitude system (Cordes & Gelman, 2005;Gallistel & Gelman, 1992).…”

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“…This co-called parallel individuation system is supposed to represent small numbers of objects in the case of both young children (Le Corre & Carey, 2008) and non-human primates (Hauser & Carey, 2003;Wood, Hauser, Glynn & Barner, 2008).…”

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The origin of counting: A study of the early meaning of ‘one’, ‘two’ and ‘three’ among Basque- and Spanish-speaking children

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This study examines the beginning of the conceptual understanding of the first number-words and what role language can play in developing the notion of numbers. To that end, 2½-and 3½-year-old Basque and Spanish monolingual children's (N=131) basic numeracy skills are analysed by means of two different experimental procedures: Give-N (in which children are requested to gather sets of objects) and How-Many (based on the ability to count collections). The paper accounts for differences as regards the performance in the Give-N procedure between children with different linguistic backgrounds. In accordance with previous research, this finding can be related to the dissimilar ways by which languages (Basque and Spanish, in this case) express grammatical number, supporting the idea that language plays a definite role in the emergence of the earliest set-size meanings of 'one,' 'two,' and 'three' number-words. Eventually, the work attempts to contribute to the growing body of evidence that shows that the meaning of the count-list appears from mapping numerals onto numerical cognitive representations produced by early core systems of numbers.

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The development and assessment of counting-based cardinal number concepts

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Lai

2022

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Why the verbal counting principles are constructed out of representations of small sets of individuals: A reply to Gallistel

Cited by 24 publications

References 35 publications

The role of numerical competence in a specialized predatory strategy of an araneophagic spider

The role of numerical competence in a specialized predatory strategy of an araneophagic spider

The origin of counting: A study of the early meaning of ‘one’, ‘two’ and ‘three’ among Basque- and Spanish-speaking children

The development and assessment of counting-based cardinal number concepts

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