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ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2017

Innateness of magnitude perception? Skill can be acquired and mastered at all ages.

Orly Rubinsten, Avi Karni

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Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Orly RubinstenEdmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities,Department of Learning Disabilities,University of Haifa,Mount Carmel,Haifa 31905,Israelorly.rubinsten@gmail.comhttp://langnum.haifa.ac.il/ERubin.php.
Avi KarniEdmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities,Department of Learning Disabilities,University of Haifa,Mount Carmel,Haifa 31905,Israelorly.rubinsten@gmail.comhttp://langnum.haifa.ac.il/ERubin.php.

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Abstract

We agree with Leibovich et al.'s argument that the number sense theory should be re-evaluated. However, we argue that highly efficient skills (i.e., fluent and highly accurate, "automatic," performance) can be acquired and mastered at all ages. Hence, evidence for primacy or fluency in perceiving continuous magnitudes is insufficient for supporting strong conclusions about the innateness of this aptitude.

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