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Spontaneous perception of numerosity in pre-school children.
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- The role of non-numerical information in the perception of temporal numerosity.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Math difficulties in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder do not originate from the visual number sense.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Numerosity adaptation partly depends on the allocation of implicit numerosity-contingent visuo-spatial attention.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- A robust electrophysiological marker of spontaneous numerical discrimination.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Logarithmic encoding of ensemble time intervals.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Spontaneous perception of numerosity in pre-school children.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
There is strong evidence that humans can make rough estimates of the numerosity of a set of items, almost from birth. However, as numerosity covaries with many non-numerical variables, the idea of a direct number sense has been challenged. Here we applied two different psychophysical paradigms to demonstrate the spontaneous perception of numerosity in a cohort of young pre-school children. The results of both tasks showed that even at that early developmental stage, humans spontaneously base the perceptual choice on numerosity, rather than on area or density. Precision in one of these tasks predicted mathematical abilities. The results reinforce strongly the idea of a primary number sense and provide further evidence linking mathematical skills to the sensory precision of the spontaneous number sense, rather than to mechanisms involved in handling explicit numerosity judgements or extensive exposure to mathematical teaching.
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