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SUBMITTER: Gilmore C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5213839 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of cognitive psychology (Hove, England) 20160831 8
The dot comparison task, in which participants select the more numerous of two dot arrays, has become the predominant method of assessing Approximate Number System (ANS) acuity. Creation of the dot arrays requires the manipulation of visual characteristics, such as dot size and convex hull. For the task to provide a valid measure of ANS acuity, participants must ignore these characteristics and respond on the basis of number. Here, we report two experiments that explore the influence of dot area ...[more]