Numeron

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Noun
  1. 1
    A hypothetical nonverbal cognitive representation of a numeric amount.

    "Of course, it is also possible that Sheba's mental representations of 1, 2, 3, and 4 may have been symbolic, accumulator representations or numeron representations."

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"Of course, it is also possible that Sheba's mental representations of 1, 2, 3, and 4 may have been symbolic, accumulator representations or numeron representations."

Etymology

From numero- + -on (“forming names of things considered as basic or fundamental units”). Coined in 1986 by Rochel Gelman and C. R. Gallistel.

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