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Direct and rapid encoding of numerosity in the visual stream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2017

Joonkoo Park ,
Nick K. DeWind  and
Elizabeth M. Brannon
Joonkoo Park
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 joonkoo@umass.edu http://codeneuro.net/
Nick K. DeWind
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 dewind@sas.upenn.edu ebrannon@sas.upenn.edu http://web.sas.upenn.edu/brannon-lab/
Elizabeth M. Brannon
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 dewind@sas.upenn.edu ebrannon@sas.upenn.edu http://web.sas.upenn.edu/brannon-lab/
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Abstract

The target article dismisses all prior work purporting to demonstrate that number is a conceptual primitive. Here, we take issue with their misrepresentation of our recent line of work on numerosity perception, which demonstrates rapid and direct encoding of numerosity and undermines the thesis of the target article that “continuous magnitudes are more automatic and basic than numerosities” (sect. 1, para. 2).

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e185
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