Probabilities can be described by a numerator and a denominator and students and decision-makers are not indifferent to numerical values of the components. For instance, when people compare two equal ratios their choices gravitate to the option with …
Numerosity is informative for living organisms. It can transmit, among many things, amount of food available, heading direction of the troop, which group could win a territorial dispute, the decision of were to build a beehive. Given its ecological …
Inversion is an essential operation, for instance in math (negatives) and action (to move in an opposite direction). Even though humans can invert is unclear how is implemented. There are two alternative hypotheses. The first possibility (H1)is that …
Languages commonly use physical properties to discuss dis-tinctly non-physical states and events in the world (e.g., “I’mnot ahugefan of licorice”). Here, we investigate the degreeto which associations between physical properties and …