Nonsymbolic numerosity maps at the occipitotemporal cortex respond to symbolic numbers

Y Cai, S Hofstetter, SO Dumoulin - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Numerosity, the set size of a group of items, helps guide human and animals' behavior and
decisions. Numerosity perception is thought to be a precursor of symbolic numerical …

Contrasting symbolic and non-symbolic numerical representations in a joint classification task

V Prpic, YA Basamh, CM Goodridge, T Agostini… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2023 - Springer
Both symbolic (digits) and non-symbolic (dots) numerals are spatially coded, with relatively
small numbers being responded faster with a left key and large numbers being responded …

Automatic integration of numerical formats examined with frequency-tagged EEG

M Marinova, C Georges, M Guillaume, B Reynvoet… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
How humans integrate and abstract numerical information across different formats is one of
the most debated questions in human cognition. We addressed the neuronal signatures of …

Knowledge of mathematical symbols goes beyond numbers

H Douglas, MG Headley, S Hadden… - Journal of Numerical …, 2020 - jnc.psychopen.eu
The written language of mathematics is dense with symbols and with conventions for
combining those symbols to express mathematical ideas. For example, reading a factored …

A shared numerical magnitude representation evidenced by the distance effect in frequency-tagging EEG

C Marlair, V Crollen, A Lochy - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Humans can effortlessly abstract numerical information from various codes and contexts.
However, whether the access to the underlying magnitude information relies on common or …

Electrophysiological signatures of numerosity encoding in a delayed match-to-sample task

W Fu, S Dolfi, G Decarli, C Spironelli… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The number of elements in a small set of items is appraised in a fast and exact manner, a
phenomenon called subitizing. In contrast, humans provide imprecise responses when …

Common and distinct predictors of non-symbolic and symbolic ordinal number processing across the early primary school years

S Finke, C Banfi, HH Freudenthaler, AF Steiner… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
What are the cognitive mechanisms supporting non-symbolic and symbolic order
processing? Preliminary evidence suggests that non-symbolic and symbolic order …

Over-and underweighting of extreme values in decisions from sequential samples.

V Clarmann von Clarenau, S Appelhoff… - Journal of …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
People routinely make decisions based on samples of numerical values. A common
conclusion from the literature in psychophysics and behavioral economics is that observers …

Cultural factors weaken but do not reverse left-to-right spatial biases in numerosity processing: Data from Arabic and English monoliterates and Arabic-English …

D Lopiccolo, CB Chang - PloS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Directional response biases due to a conceptual link between space and number, such as a
left-to-right hand bias for increasing numerical magnitude, are known as the SNARC (Spatial …

Length is not all that matters: Testing the role of number identity and the ratio of fillers in comparisons of multi-digits with different digit length

J García-Orza, I Gutiérrez-Cordero, C Larios… - Psychological …, 2023 - Springer
Research in multi-digit number comparison usually considers stimuli with the same number
of digits (eg, 3452 vs. 7831). Surprisingly, there is almost no research on the comparison of …