ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2025
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities.
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- The cognitive processing of numerical bases: a review of empirical evidence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
The base concept in number systems is realized differently across multiple representational modalities-frameworks that incorporate sensory channel, medium of expression and semantic structures into integrated semiotic systems. Because these three factors are interdependent, a much closer assessment of how they jointly affect numerical representations is sorely needed. Number words (lexical numerals) and graphic notations (numerical notations) are the two best-attested numerical modalities cross-culturally. Users may choose between one or the other, or combine the two together as hybrid expressions (as in
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