@Article{Pica2004,
  author      = {Pierre Pica and Cathy Lemer and V\'eronique Izard and Stanislas Dehaene},
  journal     = {Science},
  title       = {Exact and approximate arithmetic in an Amazonian indigene group.},
  year        = {2004},
  number      = {5695},
  pages       = {499--503},
  volume      = {306},
  abstract    = {Is calculation possible without language? Or is the human ability
	for arithmetic dependent on the language faculty? To clarify the
	relation between language and arithmetic, we studied numerical cognition
	in speakers of Munduruk\'u, an Amazonian language with a very small
	lexicon of number words. Although the Munduruk\'u lack words for numbers
	beyond 5, they are able to compare and add large approximate numbers
	that are far beyond their naming range. However, they fail in exact
	arithmetic with numbers larger than 4 or 5. Our results imply a distinction
	between a nonverbal system of number approximation and a language-based
	counting system for exact number and arithmetic.},
  doi         = {10.1126/science.1102085},
  institution = {Unit\'e Mixte de Recherche 7023 "Formal Structures of Language," CNRS and Paris VIII University, Paris, France.},
  keywords    = {Adult; Brazil; Child; Cognition; Culture; Humans; Indians, South American; Language; Mathematics; Vocabulary},
  language    = {eng},
  medline-pst = {ppublish},
  pmid        = {15486303},
  timestamp   = {2010.12.04},
}

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