A brain for numbers : the biology of the number instinct / Andreas Nieder.

Author
Nieder, Andreas [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge : MIT Press, 2019.
Description
1 online resource (xv, 376 pages) : illustrations

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Summary note
How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through both evolution and development.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I Conceptual Foundations
  • Thinking about numbers
  • Numerical concepts, representations, and systems
  • Part II Numbers deeply rooted in our ancestry
  • Understanding numbers across the animal tree of life
  • The utility of number for animals
  • Biological heritage in the human brain
  • Part III Numerical quantity in the brain
  • Localizing numerical quantity representations in the human brain
  • Number neurons
  • Part IV Number symbols
  • Signs for numbers
  • Neural foundation of counting and number symbols
  • The calculating brain
  • Space and number
  • Part V Development
  • The developing number brain
  • Developmental dyscalculia
  • Part VI The brain departing from empirical reality
  • The magical number zero
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 9780262354318 ((electronic book))
  • 0-262-35432-2
  • 0-262-35431-4 ((electronic book))
OCLC
1099681536
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