Rafael E. Núñez is a professor of
cognitive science at the
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...
and a proponent of
embodied cognition. He co-authored ''
Where Mathematics Comes From'' with
George Lakoff.
External links
Academic home page* Rafael E. Núñez, Eve Sweetser (2006).
With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time. (An analysis of the temporal vision in the
Aymara
Aymara may refer to:
Languages and people
* Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language
** Aymara language, the main language within that family
** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...
culture.)
Mathematical cognition researchers
American mathematicians
Living people
University of California, San Diego faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American writers
21st-century American writers
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