Donna West is Professor of Linguistics at the State University of New York, Cortland. For nearly forty years she has presented and published extensively on Peirceโs semiotic. Her 2013 book, Deictic Imaginings: Semiosis at Work and at Play, investigates the acquisition of Peircean Index in childrenโs development of deictic gestures and terms. Her 2016 edited volume Consensus on Peirceโs Concept of Habit: Before and Beyond Consciousness is a global collaboration with contributions by scholars from twelve nations. Additionally, she has edited two special journal issues on Peirce and Consciousness. She edited the โMathematics and Cognitionโ section for the Handbook on Cognitive Mathematics (Danesi M.,eds., Springer, 2022). Her own contribution to the section entails a treatment of how chunking in working memory underlies abductive reasoning.