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SUBMITTER: Cheyette SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731650 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cheyette Samuel J SJ Piantadosi Steven T ST
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190819 36
The approximate number system (ANS) has attracted broad interest due to its potential importance in early mathematical development and the fact that it is conserved across species. Models of the ANS and behavioral measures of ANS acuity both assume that quantity estimation is computed rapidly and in parallel across an entire view of the visual scene. We present evidence instead that ANS estimates are largely the product of a serial accumulation mechanism operating across visual fixations. We use ...[more]