[FOM] on numerical cognition

[Kreinovich, Vladik]

Logarithmic scale has several good explanations, see, e.g., 

Jerry Hobbs and Vladik Kreinovich, "Optimal Choice of Granularity
  In Commonsense Estimation: Why Half-Orders of Magnitude",
  International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 8,
  pp. 843-855.
Available at http://www.cs.utep.edu/vladik/2001/tr01-09b.pdf

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From: fom-bounces at cs.nyu.edu [mailto:fom-bounces at cs.nyu.edu] On Behalf Of catarina dutilh
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:40 AM

One interesting result 
is that both young children and untrained adults seem to have a logarithmic 
representation of the sequence of the natural numbers, rather than a linear one. 
There is a very influential article on this which appeared in Nature fairly 
recently:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/320/5880/1217

The first author of this article is Stanislas Dehaene, who is one of the main 
researchers in the field.