Right idea, wrong magnitude system

Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan:40:e177. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16002156.

Abstract

Leibovich et al. claim that number representations are non-existent early in life and that the associations between number and continuous magnitudes reside in stimulus confounds. We challenge both claims - positing, instead, that number is represented independently of continuous magnitudes already in infancy, but is nonetheless more deeply connected to other magnitudes through adulthood than acknowledged by the "sense of magnitude" theory.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Cognition*