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      Foundations of Geometric Cognition
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      Foundations of Geometric Cognition book

      Foundations of Geometric Cognition

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      Foundations of Geometric Cognition book

      ByMateusz Hohol
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 2 October 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429056291
      Pages 204
      eBook ISBN 9780429056291
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics
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      Hohol, M. (2019). Foundations of Geometric Cognition (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429056291

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|44 pages

      Geometric Thinking, the Paradise of Abstraction

      chapter 2|35 pages

      The Hardwired Foundations of Geometric Cognition

      chapter 3|39 pages

      Embodiment and Abstraction

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Cognitive Artifacts and Euclid

      Diagrams and formulae

      chapter |3 pages

      Conclusions and Future Directions for Research

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