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The language of geometry: Fast comprehension of geometrical primitives and rules in human adults and preschoolers

  • Marie Amalric ,

    * E-mail: marie.amalric@cea.fr (MA); stanislas.dehaene@cea.fr (SD)

    Affiliations Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DSV/I2BM, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif/Yvette, France, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, IFD, Paris, France, Collège de France, Paris, France

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  • Liping Wang,

    Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

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  • Pierre Pica,

    Affiliations Instituto do Cérebro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brasil, UMR 7023 Structures Formelles du Langage CNRS, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9452-5446

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  • Santiago Figueira,

    Affiliation Department of Computer Science, FCEN, University of Buenos Aires and ICC-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  • Mariano Sigman,

    Affiliation Neuroscience Laboratory, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  • Stanislas Dehaene

    * E-mail: marie.amalric@cea.fr (MA); stanislas.dehaene@cea.fr (SD)

    Affiliations Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DSV/I2BM, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif/Yvette, France, Collège de France, Paris, France

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The language of geometry: Fast comprehension of geometrical primitives and rules in human adults and preschoolers

  • Marie Amalric, 
  • Liping Wang, 
  • Pierre Pica, 
  • Santiago Figueira, 
  • Mariano Sigman, 
  • Stanislas Dehaene
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  • Published: January 26, 2017
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005273
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