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Rafael Núñez

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Psychology

D-Index
31
Citations
7808
World Ranking
11060
National Ranking
5770

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Hellman Fellow

Best Publications

  • Where mathematics comes from : how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being

    George Lakoff;Rafael E. Núñez

  • With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time

    Rafael E. Núñez;Eve Sweetser

  • Embodied cognition as grounding for situatedness and context in mathematics education

    Rafael E. Nunez;Laurie D. Edwards;Joao Filipe Matos

  • The tangle of space and time in human cognition

    Rafael Núñez;Kensy Cooperrider

  • Time after time: The psychological reality of the Ego- and Time-Reference-Point distinction in metaphorical construals of time.

    Rafael E. Nunez;Benjamin A. Motz;Ursina Teuscher

  • Is There Really an Evolved Capacity for Number

    Rafael E. Núñez

  • What happened to cognitive science

    Rafael Núñez;Michael Allen;Richard Gao;Carson Miller Rigoli

  • Contours of time: Topographic construals of past, present, and future in the Yupno valley of Papua New Guinea

    Rafael Núñez;Kensy Cooperrider;D Doan;Jürg Wassmann

  • Reclaiming cognition : the primacy of action, intention and emotion

    Rafael Núñez;Walter J. Freeman

  • Across time, across the body: Transversal temporal gestures

    Kensy Cooperrider;Rafael Núñez

  • Do Real Numbers Really Move? Language, Thought, and Gesture: The Embodied Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics

    Rafael E. Núñez

  • The Metaphorical Structure of Mathematics: Sketching Out Cognitive Foundations for a Mind-Based Mathematics

    George Lakoff;Rafael E. Nunez

  • No Innate Number Line in the Human Brain

    Rafael E. Núñez

  • The motion behind the symbols: a vital role for dynamism in the conceptualization of limits and continuity in expert mathematics.

    Tyler Marghetis;Rafael E. Núñez

  • Facing the sunrise: cultural worldview underlying intrinsic-based encoding of absolute frames of reference in aymara.

    Rafael E. Núñez;Carlos Cornejo

  • Doing arithmetic by hand: Hand movements during exact arithmetic reveal systematic, dynamic spatial processing

    Tyler Marghetis;Rafael Núñez;Benjamin K. Bergen

  • Gesture and metaphor comprehension: Electrophysiological evidence of cross-modal coordination by audiovisual stimulation

    Carlos Cornejo;Franco Simonetti;Agustín Ibáñez;Nerea Aldunate

  • Creating mathematical infinities: Metaphor, blending, and the beauty of transfinite cardinals

    Rafael E. Núñez

  • The Preference for Pointing With the Hand Is Not Universal.

    Kensy Cooperrider;James D. Slotta;Rafael E. Núñez

  • Could the future taste purple? Reclaiming mind, body and cognition

    Rafael E. Nunez

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