Psychophysical evidence for the number sense

DC Burr, G Anobile, R Arrighi - … Transactions of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It is now clear that most animals, including humans, possess an ability to rapidly estimate
number. Some have questioned whether this ability arises from dedicated numerosity …

[HTML][HTML] Spontaneous perception of numerosity in humans

GM Cicchini, G Anobile, DC Burr - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Humans, including infants, and many other species have a capacity for rapid, nonverbal
estimation of numerosity. However, the mechanisms for number perception are still not clear; …

Learning disabilities: Developmental dyscalculia

E Castaldi, M Piazza, T Iuculano - Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 2020 - Elsevier
Developmental dyscalculia (DD) is a developmental learning disability that manifests as a
persistent difficulty in comprehending even the most basic numeric and arithmetic concepts …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal effects of the home learning environment and parental difficulties on reading and math development across grades 1–9

D Khanolainen, M Psyridou, G Silinskas… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This study focuses on parental reading and mathematical difficulties, the home literacy
environment, and the home numeracy environment as well as their predictive role in Finnish …

Numerical encoding in early visual cortex

NK DeWind, J Park, MG Woldorff, EM Brannon - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability to estimate numerosity in a visual array arose early in evolution, develops early in
human development, and is correlated with mathematical ability. Previous work with visually …

Attentional amplification of neural codes for number independent of other quantities along the dorsal visual stream

E Castaldi, M Piazza, S Dehaene, A Vignaud, E Eger - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of adaptation on numerosity decoding in the human brain

E Castaldi, D Aagten-Murphy, M Tosetti, D Burr… - NeuroImage, 2016 - Elsevier
Psychophysical studies have shown that numerosity is a sensory attribute susceptible to
adaptation. Neuroimaging studies have reported that, at least for relatively low numbers …

[HTML][HTML] “Groupitizing”: a strategy for numerosity estimation

G Anobile, E Castaldi, PAM Moscoso, DC Burr… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Previous work has shown that when arrays of objects are grouped within clusters,
participants can enumerate their numerosity more rapidly than when objects are randomly …

Simultaneous and sequential subitizing are separate systems, and neither predicts math abilities

G Anobile, R Arrighi, DC Burr - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Small quantities of visual objects can be rapidly estimated without error, a phenomenon
known as subitizing. Larger quantities can also be rapidly estimated, but with error, and the …

Spatial but not temporal numerosity thresholds correlate with formal math skills in children.

G Anobile, R Arrighi, E Castaldi, E Grassi… - Developmental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Humans and other animals are able to make rough estimations of quantities using what has
been termed the approximate number system (ANS). Much evidence suggests that …