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Is there a comparative psychology of implicit mathematical knowledge?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Hank Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. hdavis@ucguelph.ca

Abstract

Geary suggests that implicit mathematical principles exist across human cultures and transcend sex differences. Is such knowledge present in animals as well, and is it sufficient to account for performance in all species, including our own? I attempt to trace the implications of Gearys target article for comparative psychology, questioning the exclusion of “subitizing” in describing human mathematical performance, and asking whether human researchers function as cultural agents with animals, elevating their implicit knowledge to secondary domains of numerical performance.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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