A Common Metric Magnitude System for the Perception and Production of Numerosity, Length and Duration

A Common Metric Magnitude System for the Perception and Production of Numerosity, Length and Duration

Numerosity, length and duration processing may share a common functional mechanism situated within the parietal cortex. A strong parallelism between the processing of these three magnitudes has been revealed by similar behavioral signatures (e.g., Weber-Fechner’s law, the distance effect) and recipr...

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Main Authors: Virginie eCrollen, Stéphane eGrade, Mauro ePesenti, Valérie eDormal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
duration
numerosity
Estimation
Magnitude processing
Length
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00449/full

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