A study of people in Nicaragua has concluded that humans need language in order to understand large numbers. Members of the group were born deaf and never learned Spanish or a formal sign language, ...

New research conducted with deaf people in Nicaragua shows that language may play an important role in learning the meanings of numbers. Field studies by University of Chicago psychologist Susan ...

New research conducted with deaf people in Nicaragua shows that language may play an important role in learning the meanings of numbers. New research conducted with deaf people in Nicaragua shows that ...

People need language to fully understand numbers. This discovery – long suspected, and now backed by strong evidence – may shed light on the way children acquire their number sense. Previous studies ...

Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

Language may shape human thought – suggests a counting study in a Brazilian tribe whose language does not define numbers above two. Hunter-gatherers from the Pirahã tribe, whose language only contains ...

Caleb Everett was a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. He receives funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Numbers do not exist in all cultures. There are numberless hunter-gatherers embedded ...