David J. Rotenberg, Qing Chang, Natalia Potapova, Andy Wang, Marcia Hon, Marcos Sanches, Nikola Bogetic, Nathan Frias, Tommy Liu, Brendan Behan, Rachad El-Badrawi, Stephen C. Strother, Susan G. Evans, Jordan Mikkelsen, Tom Gee, Fan Dong, Stephen R. Arnott, Shuai Laing, Moyez Dharsee, Anthony L. Vaccarino, Mojib Javadi, Kenneth R. Evans, Damian Jankowicz Read Full Article […]

Abstract A central debate in the cognitive sciences surrounds the nature of adult speakers’ linguistic representations: Are they purely syntactic (a traditional and widely held view; e.g., Branigan & Pickering, #cogs12697-bib-0006), or are they semantically structured? A recent study (Ambridge, Bidgood, Pine, Rowland, & Freudenthal, #cogs12697-bib-0003) found support for the latter view, showing that adults’ […]

Abstract Current understanding of the development of quantity representations is based primarily on performance in the number‐line task. We posit that the data from number‐line tasks reflect the observer’s underlying representation of quantity, together with the cognitive strategies and skills required to equate line length and quantity. Here, we specify a unified theory linking the […]