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Semantic cognition versus numerical cognition: a topographical perspective
Rocco Chiou1, Daniel Margulies2, Mojtaba Soltanlou3
1School of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Abstract:
Semantic cognition and numerical cognition are dissociable faculties with separable neural mechanisms. However, recent advances in the cortical topography of the temporal and parietal lobes have revealed a common organisational principle for the neural representations of semantics and numbers. We discuss their convergence and divergence through the prism of topography.
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