Szymanik Jakub, Kochari Arnold, Bremnes Heming Strømholt
Center for Brain/Mind Sciences and the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.
Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam.
Cogn Sci. 2023 Oct;47(10):e13346. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13346.
One approach to understanding how the human cognitive system stores and operates with quantifiers such as "some," "many," and "all" is to investigate their interaction with the cognitive mechanisms for estimating and comparing quantities from perceptual input (i.e., nonsymbolic quantities). While a potential link between quantifier processing and nonsymbolic quantity processing has been considered in the past, it has never been discussed extensively. Simultaneously, there is a long line of research within the field of numerical cognition on the relationship between processing exact number symbols (such as "3" or "three") and nonsymbolic quantity. This accumulated knowledge can potentially be harvested for research on quantifiers since quantifiers and number symbols are two different ways of referring to quantity information symbolically. The goal of the present review is to survey the research on the relationship between quantifiers and nonsymbolic quantity processing mechanisms and provide a set of research directions and specific questions for the investigation of quantifier processing.
理解人类认知系统如何存储和处理“一些”“许多”和“所有”等量词的一种方法是研究它们与从感知输入（即非符号数量）估计和比较数量的认知机制之间的相互作用。虽然过去已经考虑过量词处理和非符号数量处理之间的潜在联系，但从未进行过广泛的讨论。同时，在数字认知领域，有一系列关于处理精确数字符号（如“3”或“三”）与非符号数量之间关系的研究。由于量词和数字符号是符号化表示数量信息的两种不同方式，因此这些积累的知识有可能用于量词研究。本综述的目的是调查量词与非符号数量处理机制之间关系的研究，并为量词处理的研究提供一组研究方向和具体问题。
