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Number faculty is alive and kicking: On number discriminations and number neurons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2017

Andreas Nieder
Andreas Nieder*
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Animal Physiology Unit, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany andreas.nieder@uni-tuebingen.de https://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/andreas.nieder/
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Abstract

Leibovich et al. advocate for a single “sense of magnitude” to which a dedicated faculty for number could allegedly be reduced. This conclusion is unjustified as the authors adopt an unnecessarily narrow definition of “number sense,” neglect studies that demonstrate non-symbolic numerosity representation, and furthermore ignore abstract number representations in the brain.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e181
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