In this review, we are pitting two theories against each other: the more accepted theory, the
number sense theory, suggesting that a sense of number is innate and non-symbolic …

Subitizing is the fast and accurate enumeration of small sets. Whether attention is necessary
for subitizing remains controversial considering (1) subitizing is claimed to be “pre-attentive” …

Attractive serial dependence refers to an adaptive change in the representation of sensory
information, whereby a current stimulus appears to be similar to a previous one. The nature …

Human early visual cortex response amplitudes monotonically increase with numerosity
(object number), regardless of object size and spacing. However, numerosity is typically …

Recent studies have demonstrated that the numerosity of visually presented dot arrays is
represented in low-level visual cortex extremely early in latency. However, whether or not …

While parietal cortex is thought to be critical for representing numerical magnitudes, we
recently reported an event-related potential (ERP) study demonstrating selective neural …

Humans and other animals base important decisions on estimates of number, and
intraparietal cortex is thought to provide a crucial substrate of this ability. However, it remains …

While recent studies in adults have demonstrated the existence of a neural mechanism for a
visual sense of number, little is known about its development and whether such a …

Serial dependence—an attractive perceptual bias whereby a current stimulus is perceived to
be similar to previously seen ones—is thought to represent the process that facilitates the …

It is believed that the approximate estimation of large sets and the exact quantification of
small sets (subitizing) are supported by two different systems, the Approximate Number …