eprintid: 3671
rev_number: 38
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datestamp: 2007-06-22 12:00:00
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creators_name: Butterworth, B
title: Why frequencies are natural
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subjects: 13100
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D05
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abstract: Research in mathematical cognition has shown that rates, and other interpretations of x/y, are hard to learn and understand. On the other hand, there is extensive evidence that the brain is endowed with a specialized mechanism for representing and manipulating the numerosities of sets – that is, frequencies. Hence, base-rates are neglected precisely because they are rates, whereas frequencies are indeed natural.
date: 2007-06
date_type: published
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X07001707
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oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
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elements_source: Scopus
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doi: 10.1017/S0140525X07001707
lyricists_name: Butterworth, Brian
lyricists_id: BLBUT84
full_text_status: public
publication: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
volume: 30
number: 3
pagerange: 259 - 260
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0140-525X
citation:        Butterworth, B;      (2007)    Why frequencies are natural.                   Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 30  (3)   259 - 260.    10.1017/S0140525X07001707 <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X07001707>.       Green open access   
 
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