Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 31 / Issue 06 / December 2008, pp 650-651
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08005669 (About DOI), Published online: 11 December 2008
Open Peer Commentary
Not all basic number representations are analog: Place coding as a precursor of the natural number system
Wim Fiasa1 and Tom Vergutsa1
a1 Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium wim.fias@ugent.be http://expsy.ugent.be tom.verguts@ugent.be http://users.ugent.be/~tverguts/
Abstract
Rips et al.'s arguments for rejecting basic number representations as a precursor of the natural number system are exclusively based on analog number coding. We argue that these arguments do not apply to place coding, a type of basic number representation that is not considered by Rips et al.
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