Distinct Cerebral Pathways for Object Identity and Number in Human Infants

All humans, regardless of their culture and education, possess an intuitive understanding of number. Behavioural evidence suggests that numerical competence may be present early on in infancy. Here, we present brain-imaging evidence for distinct cerebral coding of number and object identity in 3-mo-...

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Main Authors: Izard, VĂ©ronique, Dehaene-Lambertz, Ghislaine, Dehaene, Stanislas
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2008
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2225438/