Challenging the neurobiological link between number sense and symbolic numerical abilities

ED Wilkey, D Ansari - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A significant body of research links individual differences in symbolic numerical abilities,
such as arithmetic, to number sense, the neurobiological system used to approximate and …

Beyond the icon: Core cognition and the bounds of perception

S Clarke - Mind & Language, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper refines a controversial proposal: That core systems belong to a perceptual kind,
marked by the format of its representational outputs. Following Susan Carey, this proposal …

The knowledge of the preceding number reveals a mature understanding of the number sequence

F Sella, D Lucangeli - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
There is an ongoing debate concerning how numbers acquire numerical meaning. On the
one hand, it has been argued that symbols acquire meaning via a mapping to external …

The cultural origins of symbolic number.

DM O'Shaughnessy, E Gibson… - Psychological review, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
It is popular in psychology to hypothesize that representations of exact number are innately
determined—in particular, that biology has endowed humans with a system for manipulating …

Numerals do not need numerosities: Robust evidence for distinct numerical representations for symbolic and non-symbolic numbers

M Marinova, D Sasanguie, B Reynvoet - Psychological Research, 2021 - Springer
In numerical cognition research, it has traditionally been argued that the processing of
symbolic numerals (eg, digits) is identical to the processing of the non-symbolic …

A comes before B, like 1 comes before 2. Is the parietal cortex sensitive to ordinal relationships in both numbers and letters? An fMRI‐adaptation study

C Goffin, SE Vogel, M Slipenkyj… - Human brain …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
How are number symbols (eg, Arabic digits) represented in the brain? Functional resonance
imaging adaptation (fMRI‐A) research has indicated that the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) …

Frontoparietal and salience network synchronizations during nonsymbolic magnitude processing predict brain age and mathematical performance in youth

CT Ng, PH Huang, YC Cho, PH Lee… - Human Brain …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The development and refinement of functional brain circuits crucial to human cognition is a
continuous process that spans from childhood to adulthood. Research increasingly focuses …

[HTML][HTML] Symbolic number comparison and number priming do not rely on the same mechanism

A Krajcsi, T Szűcs - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2022 - Springer
In elementary symbolic number processing, the comparison distance effect (in a comparison
task, the task is more difficult with smaller numerical distance between the values) and the …

[HTML][HTML] On the difference between numerosity processing and number processing

AH Van Hoogmoed, EH Kroesbergen - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The ANS theory on the processing of non-symbolic numerosities and the ANS mapping
account on the processing of symbolic numbers have been the most popular theories on …

Processing symbolic numbers: The example of distance and size effects

A Krajcsi, P Kojouharova, G Lengyel - A life in cognition: Studies in …, 2022 - Springer
According to the dominant view in the literature, several numerical cognition phenomena are
explained coherently and parsimoniously by the Approximate Number System (ANS) model …