Let us redeploy attention to sensorimotor experience

With his massive redeployment hypothesis (MRH), Anderson
claims that novel cognitive functions are likely to rely on pre-existing
circuits already possessing suitable resources. Here, we put forward
recent findings from studies in numerical cognition in order to show
that the role of sensorimotor experience in the ontogenetical
development of a new function has been largely underestimated in
Anderson’s proposal.