Commentary on "Is there an innate sense of number in the brain?" by Lorenzi, Kobylkov, and Vallortigara.

• Tác giả: Brian Butterworth
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 54660

Tóm tắt

Is there an innate sense of number? Lorenzi et al. (2025) argue that the ability to extract numerical information from the environment is vital for a wide range of species, suggesting "a likely common origin". Studies in different species show that the neural mechanism for doing this-numerosity-selective neurons-can be found in animals with no opportunity to learn. This leaves open important questions: How do numerosity-selective neurons code for numerosities? Is the code the same in different species? How do the neurons participate in arithmetical operations?