It is widely accepted that human and nonhuman species possess a specialized system to
process large approximate numerosities. The theory of an evolutionarily ancient …

Humans and non-human primates share an elemental quantification system that resides in a
dedicated neural network in the parietal and frontal lobes. In this cortical network,'number …

Children use numbers every day and typically receive formal mathematical training from an
early age, as it is a main subject in school curricula. Despite an increase in children …

Doplněné a přepracované vydání oblíbené publikace se zabývá psychickým vývojem
jedince v období dětství a dospívání. Tento vývoj je analyzován z různých hledisek: se …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

One important cause of very low attainment in arithmetic (dyscalculia) seems to be a core
deficit in an inherited foundational capacity for numbers. According to one set of hypotheses …

Time and space are tightly linked in the physical word. Recently, several lines of evidence
have suggested that the mental representation of time might be spatial in nature. For …

Numbers are present in every part of modern society and the human capacity to use
numbers is unparalleled in other species. Understanding the mental and neural …

In recent years, there has been substantial growth in neuroimaging studies investigating
neural correlates of symbolic (eg Arabic numerals) and non-symbolic (eg dot arrays) number …

Around 20% of the population exhibits moderate to severe numerical disabilities [1–3], and a
further percentage loses its numerical competence during the lifespan as a result of stroke or …