The Counting Function and Its Representation in the Parietal Cortex in Humans and Animals

Current data provide evidence that the ability to assess numbers is present not only in adult humans, but also in animals and children of preverbal age. Studies of behavior in infants and animals have demonstrated that the perception of number, the discrimination of quantities, and elementary additi...

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Published in:Neuroscience and behavioral physiology 2010-02, Vol.40 (2), p.185-196
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Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
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