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SUBMITTER: Castaldi E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6693892 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Castaldi Elisa E Piazza Manuela M Dehaene Stanislas S Vignaud Alexandre A Eger Evelyn E
eLife 20190724
Humans and other animals base important decisions on estimates of number, and intraparietal cortex is thought to provide a crucial substrate of this ability. However, it remains debated whether an independent neuronal processing mechanism underlies this 'number sense', or whether number is instead judged indirectly on the basis of other quantitative features. We performed high-resolution 7 Tesla fMRI while adult human volunteers attended either to the numerosity or an orthogonal dimension (avera ...[more]