Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and
culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this …

This is an original, important and stimulating book, which attempts a Hegelian synthesis of
Piagetian constructivism and Fodorian modularity in terms of the author's own model of …

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 …

What representations underlie the ability to think and reason about number? Whereas
certain numerical concepts, such as the real numbers, are only ever represented by a subset …

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 …

The development of sub-disciplines within cognitive neuroscience follows common sense
categories such as language, audition, action, memory, emotion and perception among …

Number symbols have allowed humans to develop superior mathematical skills that are a
hallmark of technologically advanced cultures. Findings in animal cognition, developmental …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

There is evidence to suggest that animals, young infants and adult humans possess a
biologically determined, domain-specific representation of number and of elementary …

Activation of the horizontal segment of the intraparietal sulcus (hIPS) has been observed in
various number-processing tasks, whether numbers were conveyed by symbolic numerals …