mathematical cognition

Midpoint: a tool to build artificial models of numerical cognition

The present paper describes a tool developed to model and simulate tasks related to numerical cognition, a very important ele- ment of both animal and human cognition. In particular, we describe how this software has been used to study a bias that has been consis- tently observed in humans, both adults and children, about the calcu- lation of the middle point between two numbers and related with the position of numbers in intervals, called NIPE (number interval position effect).

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