The campus map has building numbers 149, 025, 001, 339 all next to each other on the Oval. This kind of ordering of numbers is typical for the Ohio State map – large numbers next to small numbers with ...

For Westerners, numbers and time run left to right. For some Bolivians, any direction will do Consider a ruler, a timeline or even weights lined up in a gym. Why are the smaller values, the earlier ...

When you think of the numbers 1–10, you probably envision them running along a line, with 1 on the left and 10 on the right. Scientists have long debated whether this tendency is hardwired or ...

Is our ability to map numbers onto a physical space – such as along a line – a cultural invention rather than an innate ability? Members of a remote tribe in Papua New Guinea understand the concept of ...