Attentional amplification of neural codes for number independent of other quantities along the dorsal visual stream

Humans and other animals base important decisions on estimates of number, and intraparietal cortex is thought to provide a crucial substrate of this ability. However, it remains debated whether an independent neuronal processing mechanism underlies this ‘number sense’, or whether number is instead j...

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Main Authors: Elisa Castaldi, Manuela Piazza, Stanislas Dehaene, Alexandre Vignaud, Evelyn Eger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-07-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/45160