Name: Rafael E. Núñez
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science
Ph.D., University of Freiburg, Switzerland, 1993

Field of Expertise: Born and educated in Santiago de Chile, Núñez investigates how the human mind creates abstraction and conceptual systems (and how they give raise to, sustain, and shape cultural variation and their worldviews). Among other forms of abstract concepts (e.g., mathematics), he studies temporal concepts in Aymara.

Region of Interest: Andean Region, Chile

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Selected Publications:

• George Lakoff & Rafael Núñez (2000). Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being. New York: Basic Books.
  
• Núñez, R. and Sweetser, E. "With the Future Behind Them: Convergent evidence from Aymara language and gesture in the cross linguistic comparison of spatial construals of time." Cognitive Science 30 (2006): 401-45.