Research into the perception of space, time and quantity has generated three separate
literatures. That number can be represented spatially is, of course, well accepted and forms …

Background: Arithmetical skills are essential to the effective exercise of citizenship in a
numerate society. How these skills are acquired, or fail to be acquired, is of great importance …

With multiple crowd gatherings of millions of people every year in events ranging from
pilgrimages to protests, concerts to marathons, and festivals to funerals; visual crowd …

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from
complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Learn how the brain processes mathematical concepts and why some students develop
math anxiety! David A. Sousa discusses the cognitive mechanisms for learning mathematics …

Did evolution endow the human brain with a predisposition to represent dedicated domains
of knowledge? We have previously argued that the number domain provides a good …

Evidence exists for a nonverbal capacity for the apprehension of number, in humans
[1](including infants [2, 3]) and in other primates [4–6]. Here, we show that perceived …

Recent studies in human neuroimaging, primate neurophysiology, and developmental
neuropsychology indicate that the human ability for arithmetic has a tangible cerebral …

Whether small numerical quantities are represented by a special subitizing system that is
distinct from a large-number estimation system has been debated for over a century. Here …