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Direct and rapid encoding of numerosity in the visual stream

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Abstract The target article dismisses all prior work purporting to demonstrate that number is a conceptual primitive. Here, we take issue with their misrepresentation of our recent line of work… Click to show full abstract

Abstract The target article dismisses all prior work purporting to demonstrate that number is a conceptual primitive. Here, we take issue with their misrepresentation of our recent line of work on numerosity perception, which demonstrates rapid and direct encoding of numerosity and undermines the thesis of the target article that “continuous magnitudes are more automatic and basic than numerosities” (sect. 1, para. 2).

Keywords: numerosity; rapid encoding; encoding numerosity; visual stream; direct rapid; numerosity visual

Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2017

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