ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017
Towards numerical cognition's origin: insights from day-old domestic chicks.
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- Behavioral and Neuronal Representation of Numerosity Zero in the Crow.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Response of male and female domestic chicks to change in the number (quantity) of imprinting objects.Learning & behavior · 2021Article
- Fast saccadic eye-movements in humans suggest that numerosity perception is automatic and direct.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Insect-Inspired Sequential Inspection Strategy Enables an Artificial Network of Four Neurons to Estimate Numerosity.iScience · 2019Article
- Introduction: The origins of numerical abilities.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Understanding the origin of number sense: a review of fish studies.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Instead of the scepticism on animal numerical understanding that characterized the first half of the twentieth century, in recent decades, a large and increasing body of the literature has shown that adult animals can master a variety of non-symbolic (in the absence of symbols such as mathematical words) numerical tasks. Nonetheless, evidence proving early numerical abilities in non-human animals was sparse. In this paper, I report the ongoing work to investigate numerical cognition in the day-old domestic chick (
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