Spatial Attention Determines the Nature of Nonverbal Number Representation

@article{Hyde2011SpatialAD,
  title={Spatial Attention Determines the Nature of Nonverbal Number Representation},
  author={Daniel C. Hyde and Justin N. Wood},
  journal={Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience},
  year={2011},
  volume={23},
  pages={2336-2351}
}
Coordinated studies of adults, infants, and nonhuman animals provide evidence for two systems of nonverbal number representation: a “parallel individuation” system that represents individual items and a “numerical magnitude” system that represents the approximate cardinal value of a group. However, there is considerable debate about the nature and functions of these systems, due largely to the fact that some studies show a dissociation between small (1–3) and large (>3) number representation… 
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