Talk:Stanislas Dehaene

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Dehaene did not found numerical cognition, though he is a major player in the field. One could argue that is was founded by the Greeks or earlier, though in a modern sense, psychological study of the number sense goes back to Moyer and Landauer in 1967--though one could easily argue that there were earlier works than this.

Also, we should note that he played a large part in the discovery of several psycho-numerical effects including the SNARC (spatial-numerical association of response codes) effect as well as several psycho-numerical models (the "triple-code " model). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neilberg (talk • contribs)

You're right, there are certainly previous studies, or else Dehaene wouldn't have had very much to write about in his book. I've changed that from "helped to found" to "popularized and synthesized" which is more correct, but which also notes his fundamental role in the development of numerical cognition as a coherent, unified field of study. If you would like to help out, I would welcome any comments/suggestions. Edhubbard 19:48, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]