Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2008 - Volume 31, Issue 06  

Open Peer Commentary

What is still needed? On nativist proposals for acquiring concepts of natural numbers

Wen-Chi Chianga1

a1 Department of Psychology, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi 62102, Taiwan psywcc@ccu.edu.tw http://www.psy.ccu.edu.tw/~psywcc/

Abstract

Rips et al.'s analyses have boosted the plausibility of proposals that the human mind embodies some critical properties of natural numbers. I suggest that such proposals can be further evaluated by infant studies, neuropsychological data, and evolution-based considerations, and additionally, that Rips et al.'s model may need to be modified in order to more completely reflect infants' quantitative abilities.

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