Direct and rapid encoding of numerosity in the visual stream
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Investigating Object Representations in the Macaque Dorsal Visual Stream Using Single-unit Recordings
Published on: August 1, 2018
Joonkoo Park1, Nick K DeWind2, Elizabeth M Brannon2
1Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,University of Massachusetts Amherst,Amherst,MA 01002joonkoo@umass.eduhttp://codeneuro.net/.
Abstract:
The target article dismisses all prior work purporting to demonstrate that number is a conceptual primitive. Here, we take issue with their misrepresentation of our recent line of work on numerosity perception, which demonstrates rapid and direct encoding of numerosity and undermines the thesis of the target article that "continuous magnitudes are more automatic and basic than numerosities" (sect. 1, para. 2).
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