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A brain for numbers : the biology of the number instinct / Andreas Nieder.
Author
Nieder, Andreas
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge : MIT Press, 2019.
Description
1 online resource (xv, 376 pages) : illustrations
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Number concept in animals
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Mathematical ability
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Cognitive neuroscience
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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.
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ISBN
9780262354318 ((electronic book))
0-262-35432-2
0-262-35431-4 ((electronic book))
OCLC
1099681536
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