Universal and uniquely human factors in spontaneous number perception

A capacity for nonverbal numerical estimation is widespread among humans and animals. However, it is currently unclear whether numerical percepts are spontaneously extracted from the environment and whether nonverbal perception is influenced by human exposure to formal mathematics. We tested US adul...

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Main Authors: Ferrigno, Stephen, Jara-Ettinger, Julian, Piantadosi, Steven T., Cantlon, Jessica F.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110112
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6167-1647