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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Number processing is crucial for understanding scenes.
  • It's theorized to involve location-specific and location-invariant stages.
  • The application of this to subitizing (small number processing) is unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the stages of numerosity processing in the subitizing range using EEG.
  • To determine if location-specific and location-invariant representations exist for small numbers.
  • To explore the temporal and spatial dynamics of these processing stages.

Main Methods:

  • Reanalysis of two EEG experiments using multivariate pattern decoding.
  • Decoding numerosity within hemifields (location-specific) and across hemifields (location-invariant).
  • Time-by-channel searchlight analysis to map brain activity.

Main Results:

  • A location-specific stage (180-200 ms) was identified, primarily in occipital regions.
  • A subsequent location-invariant stage (around 300 ms) was found, mainly in parietal regions.
  • Both stages were engaged only when numerosity processing was task-relevant, not automatic.

Conclusions:

  • Numerosity coding for subitizing relies on an attention-based, location-specific stage.
  • This stage precedes and overlaps with a location-invariant stage for abstract numerosity representation.
  • Findings demonstrate temporal and spatial segregation in processing small numerosities.