ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022
Characterizing ontogeny of quantity discrimination in zebrafish.
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- 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
- Decision-making in shoaling: zebrafish integrate cues of familiarity and group size.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Proto-arithmetic abilities in zebrafish (Heliyon · 2024Article
- Neural Basis of Number Sense in Larval Zebrafish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Looks like home: numerosity, but not spatial frequency guides preference in zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio).Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Quantity discrimination by kittens of the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus).Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Quantity discrimination in newly hatched zebrafish suggests hardwired numerical abilities.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Characterizing ontogeny of quantity discrimination in zebrafish.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Quantity as a Fish Views It: Behavior and Neurobiology.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2022Review
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Abstract
A sense of non-symbolic numerical magnitudes is widespread in the animal kingdom and has been documented in adult zebrafish. Here, we investigated the ontogeny of this ability using a group size preference (GSP) task in juvenile zebrafish. Fish showed GSP from 21 days post-fertilization and reliably chose the larger group when presented with discriminations of between 1 versus 3, 2 versus 5 and 2 versus 3 conspecifics but not 2 versus 4 conspecifics. When the ratio between the number of conspecifics in each group was maintained at 1 : 2, fish could discriminate between 1 versus 2 individuals and 3 versus 6, but again, not when given a choice between 2 versus 4 individuals. These findings are in agreement with studies in other species, suggesting the systems involved in quantity representation do not operate separately from other cognitive mechanisms. Rather they suggest quantity processing in fishes may be the result of an interplay between attentional, cognitive and memory-related mechanisms as in humans and other animals. Our results emphasize the potential of the use of zebrafish to explore the genetic and neural processes underlying the ontogeny and function of number cognition.
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