Cantlon Jessica F, Cordes Sara, Libertus Melissa E, Brannon Elizabeth M
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Science. 2009 Jan 2;323(5910):38; author reply 38. doi: 10.1126/science.1164773.
Dehaene et al. (Reports, 30 May 2008, p. 1217) argued that native speakers of Mundurucu, a language without a linguistic numerical system, inherently represent numerical values as a logarithmically spaced spatial continuum. However, their data do not rule out the alternative conclusion that Mundurucu speakers encode numbers linearly with scalar variability and psychologically construct space-number mappings by analogy.
德阿纳等人(《报告》,2008年5月30日,第1217页)认为,蒙杜鲁库语的母语使用者没有语言数字系统,他们天生将数值表示为对数间隔的空间连续体。然而,他们的数据并未排除另一种结论,即蒙杜鲁库语使用者以标量变异性线性编码数字,并通过类比在心理上构建空间-数字映射。