Do children learn number words by associating them with perceptual magnitudes? Recent
studies argue that approximate numerical magnitudes play a foundational role in the …

Exact integer concepts are fundamental to a wide array of human activities, but their origins
are obscure. Some have proposed that children are endowed with a system of natural …

What representations underlie the ability to think and reason about number? Whereas
certain numerical concepts, such as the real numbers, are only ever represented by a subset …

Recent studies have documented an evolutionarily primitive, early emerging cognitive
system for the mental representation of numerical quantity (the analog magnitude system) …

Human infants in the first year of life possess an intuitive sense of number. This preverbal
number sense may serve as a developmental building block for the uniquely human …

An enduring question in philosophy and psychology is that of how we come to possess
knowledge of number. Here I review research suggesting that the capacity to represent and …

How do our mental representations of number change over development? The dominant
view holds that children (and adults) possess multiple representations of number, and that …

This article brings together two independent lines of research on numerally quantified
expressions, eg two girls. One stems from work in linguistic theory and asks what truth …

An essential part of understanding number words (eg, eight) is understanding that all
number words refer to the dimension of experience we call numerosity. Knowledge of this …

Human mathematical abilities comprise both learned, symbolic representations of number
and unlearned, non-symbolic evolutionarily primitive cognitive systems for representing …