语言与数量认知关系的新认识

数量认知研究近年有长足发展。文章从新近提出的独立于语言的两个数量表征核心系统，语言与精确数量运算，语言与算术事实的储存，语言对儿童早期数概念发展的影响，语言与数量认知关系的最新脑科学证据，以及语言在数量认知模型中的角色等方面，介绍和评述了人类存在依赖和不依赖语言的两级数量能力的新认识。对于是否还存在其它不依赖语言的理解数量的系统，以及这些非语言数量表征系统的认知机制，文章认为有待进一步研究

New Understanding on the Relationship between Language and Numerical Cognition

Studies of numerical cognition have made significant advance in recent years. This review comments on the two numerical representation systems of different underlying language dependency. The review includes the newly proposed dual core-systems of non-verbal numerical representations, evidence of language dependence of the exact numerical operations and the storage of arithmetic facts, the study series of language influence on the development of numerical ability in early childhood, the new evidence from brain science on the relationship between language and numerical cognition. Proposed issues for further studies include the cognitive mechanism of non-verbal numerical representations, as well as the existence of other numerical representations of language independence.