ReviewFrontiers in psychology2021
Numerosities and Other Magnitudes in the Brains: A Comparative View.
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- The inherent capacity of neurons to learn order relations and support abstract reasoning.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Exploring the Neural Substrates of Number Sense: A Perspective on Genetics, Behaviour and Neural Circuity.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Review
- The Social Relevance of Numbers: Insights from Animal Studies.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The role of musical pitch in long-distance defensive signaling.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Neural Basis of Number Sense in Larval Zebrafish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Visual continuum in non-human animals: serial dependence revealed in dogs.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Innate responses to numerousness reveal neural activation in different brain regions in newly-hatched visually naïve chicks.Heliyon · 2024Article
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- Slowly walking down to the more food: relative quantity discrimination in African spurred tortoises (Centrochelys sulcata).Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Numerical discrimination in Drosophila melanogaster.Cell reports · 2023Article
- Contributions of Lower Structures to Higher Cognition: Towards a Dynamic Network Model.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Numerosity as a visual property: Evidence from two highly evolutionary distant species.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Number neurons in the nidopallium of young domestic chicks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Characterizing ontogeny of quantity discrimination in zebrafish.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Archerfish number discrimination.eLife · 2022Article
- Neurons in the Dorso-Central Division of Zebrafish Pallium Respond to Change in Visual Numerosity.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022Article
- Quantity as a Fish Views It: Behavior and Neurobiology.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2022Review
- Ancient visual channels have a causal role in arithmetic calculations.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The Sense of Number in Fish, with Particular Reference to Its Neurobiological Bases.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
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Abstract
The ability to represent, discriminate, and perform arithmetic operations on discrete quantities (numerosities) has been documented in a variety of species of different taxonomic groups, both vertebrates and invertebrates. We do not know, however, to what extent similarity in behavioral data corresponds to basic similarity in underlying neural mechanisms. Here, we review evidence for magnitude representation, both discrete (countable) and continuous, following the sensory input path from primary sensory systems to associative pallial territories in the vertebrate brains. We also speculate on possible underlying mechanisms in invertebrate brains and on the role played by modeling with artificial neural networks. This may provide a general overview on the nervous system involvement in approximating quantity in different animal species, and a general theoretical framework to future comparative studies on the neurobiology of number cognition.
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