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SUBMITTER: Jordan KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1413880 | biostudies-other | 2006 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Jordan Kerry E KE Brannon Elizabeth M EM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060221 9
Human infants can discriminate visual and auditory stimuli solely on the basis of number, suggesting a developmental foundation for the nonverbal number representations of adult humans. Recent studies suggest that these language-independent number representations are multisensory in both adult humans and nonhuman animals. Surprisingly, however, previous studies have yielded mixed evidence concerning whether nonverbal numerical representations independent of sensory modality are present early in ...[more]