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Approximate number sense theory or approximate theory of magnitude?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2017

Alain Content ,
Michael Vande Velde  and
Andrea Adriano
Alain Content
Affiliation:
Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, CPI 191, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium alain.content@ulb.ac.be michael.vande.velde@ulb.ac.be andrea.adriano@ulb.ac.be http://crcn.ulb.ac.be/lcld
Michael Vande Velde
Affiliation:
Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, CPI 191, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium alain.content@ulb.ac.be michael.vande.velde@ulb.ac.be andrea.adriano@ulb.ac.be http://crcn.ulb.ac.be/lcld
Andrea Adriano
Affiliation:
Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, CPI 191, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium alain.content@ulb.ac.be michael.vande.velde@ulb.ac.be andrea.adriano@ulb.ac.be http://crcn.ulb.ac.be/lcld
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Abstract

Leibovich et al. argue that the evidence in favor of a perceptual mechanism devoted to the extraction of numerosity from visual collections is unsatisfactory and propose to replace it with an unspecific mechanism capturing approximate magnitudes from continuous dimensions. We argue that their representation of the evidence is incomplete and that their theoretical proposal is too vague to be useful.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e168
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