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Computational foundations of the visual number sense

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2017

Ivilin Peev Stoianov  and
Marco Zorzi
Ivilin Peev Stoianov
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, 35137 Padova, Italy ivilin.stoianov@istc.cnr.it Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
Marco Zorzi
Affiliation:
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy marco.zorzi@unipd.it http://ccnl.psy.unipd.it/ IRCCS San Camillo Hospital Foundation, 30126 Venice-Lido, Italy
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Abstract

We provide an emergentist perspective on the computational mechanism underlying numerosity perception, its development, and the role of inhibition, based on our deep neural network model. We argue that the influence of continuous visual properties does not challenge the notion of number sense, but reveals limit conditions for the computation that yields invariance in numerosity perception. Alternative accounts should be formalized in a computational model.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e191
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