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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017

Introduction: The origins of numerical abilities.

Brian Butterworth, C R Gallistel, Giorgio Vallortigara

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Making up numbers in Pano languages: idiosyncratic and unconventional base-free quantification inventories in Amazonia.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  7. How auditory neurons count temporal intervals and decode information.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  8. How auditory neurons count temporal intervals and decode information.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  17. Behavioral and Neuronal Representation of Numerosity Zero in the Crow.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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  20. Numerical ordinality in a wild nectarivore.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Brian ButterworthInstitute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK b.butterworth@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-8201-3347
C R GallistelCenter for Cog Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4860-5637
Giorgio VallortigaraCentre for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto (Trento), 38068, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8192-9062

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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ComprehensionIntelligenceMathematical ConceptsAnimalsHumansLanguage

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PMID29292355
PMCPMC5784035

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