These results highlight the flexible nature of numerical quantity processing in the brain, and they are expected to advance our understanding of how the brain handles other types of "magnitude" ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity analysis, that multiple regions in the human cerebral cortex flexibly ...

Waltham, Mass. – A Brandeis University researcher has shown that an African grey parrot with a walnut-sized brain understands a numerical concept akin to zero – an abstract notion that humans don't ...

Numbers can be used most flexibly to quantify, rank and identify. 'Cardinal' number refers to quantitative number assignments assessing set size (numerosity), whereas 'ordinal' number applies to ...

Although the actual number of items differs, the brain exhibits similar activity patterns when focusing on an extra-small (XS) quantity among packs with few items (small set) and when focusing on an ...