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

  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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