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ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2021

Numerical cognition needs more and better distinctions, not fewer.

Hilary Barth, Anna Shusterman

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Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Hilary BarthDepartment of Psychology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT06459, USA. hbarth@wesleyan.edu ashusterman@wesleyan.edu http://hbarth.faculty.wesleyan.edu http://ashusterman.faculty.wesleyan.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2937-2716
Anna ShustermanDepartment of Psychology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT06459, USA. hbarth@wesleyan.edu ashusterman@wesleyan.edu http://hbarth.faculty.wesleyan.edu http://ashusterman.faculty.wesleyan.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We agree that the approximate number system (ANS) truly represents number. We endorse the authors' conclusions on the arguments from confounds, congruency, and imprecision, although we disagree with many claims along the way. Here, we discuss some complications with the meanings that undergird theories in numerical cognition, and with the language we use to communicate those theories.

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