Event
Cognitive Science Colloquium: Barbara Sarnecka, "Numbers and Language"
Thursday, September 6, 2018
3:30 p.m.
1103 Bioscience Research Building
http://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/pcarruthers/cog-sci-F18.htm
Numbers and Language
Barbara Sarnecka
Cognitive Sciences
UC Irvine
Abstract
After 20 years of studying the relation between language and the mental representation of numbers, I’ve come to the conclusion that three things are true. (1) Numbers are unrelated to language; (2) Numbers are related to language in general; and (3) Numbers are related to particular languages. These sound like contradictory statements, but I will explain during my talk how all of them can be true, depending on what one means by ‘language’ and what one means by ‘number.’