Foundations of Geometric Cognition
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Foundations of Geometric Cognition

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Foundations of Geometric Cognition

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The cognitive foundations of geometry have puzzled academics for a long time, and even today are mostly unknown to many scholars, including mathematical cognition researchers.

Foundations of Geometric Cognition shows that basic geometric skills are deeply hardwired in the visuospatial cognitive capacities of our brains, namely spatial navigation and object recognition. These capacities, shared with non-human animals and appearing in early stages of the human ontogeny, cannot, however, fully explain a uniquely human form of geometric cognition. In the book, Hohol argues that Euclidean geometry would not be possible without the human capacity to create and use abstract concepts, demonstrating how language and diagrams provide cognitive scaffolding for abstract geometric thinking, within a context of a Euclidean system of thought.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on research from diverse fields including psychology, cognitive science, and mathematics, this book is a must-read for cognitive psychologists and cognitive scientists of mathematics, alongside anyone interested in mathematical education or the philosophical and historical aspects of geometry.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9780429509216
Edition
1
Topic
Psychologie
Subtopic
Geschichte & Theorie in der Psychologie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1. Geometric thinking, the paradise of abstraction
  10. 2. The hardwired foundations of geometric cognition
  11. 3. Embodiment and abstraction
  12. 4. Cognitive artifacts and Euclid: Diagrams and formulae
  13. Conclusions and future directions for research
  14. References
  15. Index