Beyond core knowledge: Natural geometry. Cognitive

Beyond core knowledge: Natural geometry. Cognitive (2008)

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by Elizabeth Spelke , Sang Ah Lee , Véronique Izard

Venue:	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
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TITLE	Beyond core knowledge: Natural geometry. Cognitive	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Elizabeth Spelke	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Psychology, Harvard University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Sang Ah Lee	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Psychology, Harvard University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Véronique Izard	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Psychology, Harvard University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	For many centuries, philosophers and scientists have pondered the origins and nature of human intuitions about the properties of points, lines, and figures on the Euclidean plane, with most hypothesizing that a system of Euclidean concepts either is innate or is assembled by general learning processes. Recent research from cognitive and developmental psychology, cognitive anthropology, animal cognition, and cognitive neuroscience suggests a different view. Knowledge of geometry may be founded on at least two distinct, evolutionarily ancient, core cognitive systems for representing the shapes of large-scale, navigable surface layouts and of small-scale, movable forms and objects. Each of these systems applies to some but not all perceptible arrays and captures some but not all of the three fundamental Euclidean relationships of distance (or length), angle, and direction (or sense). Like natural number (Carey, 2009), Euclidean geometry may be constructed through the productive combination of representations from these core systems, through the use of uniquely human symbolic systems.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	2008	INFERENCE
VENUE	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes	INFERENCE
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PAGES	1--14	INFERENCE
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