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Number sense in infancy predicts mathematical abilities in childhood by Starr, Ariel, Libertus, Melissa E., Brannon, Elizabeth M.

“…Human infants in the first year of life possess an intuitive sense of number. This preverbal number sense may serve as a developmental building block for the…”
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Numerosity processing in early visual cortex by Fornaciai, Michele, Brannon, Elizabeth M., Woldorff, Marty G., Park, Joonkoo

“…While parietal cortex is thought to be critical for representing numerical magnitudes, we recently reported an event-related potential (ERP) study…”
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Shared System for Ordering Small and Large Numbers in Monkeys and Humans by Cantlon, Jessica F., Brannon, Elizabeth M.

“…There is increasing evidence that animals share with adult humans and perhaps human infants a system for representing objective number as psychological…”
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Approximate Arithmetic Training Improves Informal Math Performance in Low Achieving Preschoolers by Szkudlarek, Emily, Brannon, Elizabeth M

“…Recent studies suggest that practice with approximate and non-symbolic arithmetic problems improves the math performance of adults, school aged children, and…”
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Malleability of the approximate number system: effects of feedback and training by Dewind, Nicholas K, Brannon, Elizabeth M

“…Prior research demonstrates that animals and humans share an approximate number system (ANS), characterized by ratio dependence and that the precision of this…”
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Basic math in monkeys and college students by Cantlon, Jessica F, Brannon, Elizabeth M

“…Adult humans possess a sophisticated repertoire of mathematical faculties. Many of these capacities are rooted in symbolic language and are therefore unlikely…”
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Young Children Intuitively Divide Before They Recognize the Division Symbol by Szkudlarek, Emily, Zhang, Haobai, DeWind, Nicholas K, Brannon, Elizabeth M

“…Children bring intuitive arithmetic knowledge to the classroom before formal instruction in mathematics begins. For example, children can use their number…”
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Functional imaging of numerical processing in adults and 4-y-old children by Cantlon, Jessica F, Brannon, Elizabeth M, Carter, Elizabeth J, Pelphrey, Kevin A

“…Adult humans, infants, pre-school children, and non-human animals appear to share a system of approximate numerical processing for non-symbolic stimuli such as…”
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Monotonic coding of numerosity in macaque lateral intraparietal area by Roitman, Jamie D, Brannon, Elizabeth M, Platt, Michael L

“…As any child knows, the first step in counting is summing up individual elements, yet the brain mechanisms responsible for this process remain obscure. Here we…”
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Do monkeys think in metaphors? Representations of space and time in monkeys and humans by Merritt, Dustin J., Casasanto, Daniel, Brannon, Elizabeth M.

“…Research on the relationship between the representation of space and time has produced two contrasting proposals. ATOM posits that space and time are…”
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The Neural Development of an Abstract Concept of Number by Cantlon, Jessica F, Libertus, Melissa E, Pinel, Philippe, Dehaene, Stanislas, Brannon, Elizabeth M, Pelphrey, Kevin A

“…As literate adults, we appreciate numerical values as abstract entities that can be represented by a numeral, a word, a number of lines on a scorecard, or a…”
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Magnitude shifts spatial attention from left to right in rhesus monkeys as in the human mental number line by Rugani, Rosa, Platt, Michael L., Zhang, Yujia, Brannon, Elizabeth M.

“…Humans typically represent numbers and quantities along a left-to-right continuum. Early perspectives attributed number-space association to culture; however,…”
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Training the Approximate Number System Improves Math Proficiency by Park, Joonkoo, Brannon, Elizabeth M.

“…Humans and nonhuman animals share an approximate number system (ANS) that permits estimation and rough calculation of quantities without symbols. Recent…”
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Evidence against continuous variables driving numerical discrimination in infancy by Starr, Ariel, Brannon, Elizabeth M

“…Over the past decades, abundant evidence has amassed that demonstrates infants' sensitivity to changes in number. Nonetheless, a prevalent view is that infants…”
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The Acuity and Manipulability of the ANS Have Separable Influences on Preschoolers' Symbolic Math Achievement by Starr, Ariel, Tomlinson, Rachel C, Brannon, Elizabeth M

“…The approximate number system (ANS) is widely considered to be a foundation for the acquisition of uniquely human symbolic numerical capabilities. However, the…”
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The Multisensory Representation of Number in Infancy by Jordan, Kerry E., Brannon, Elizabeth M.

“…Human infants can discriminate visual and auditory stimuli solely on the basis of number, suggesting a developmental foundation for the nonverbal number…”
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Pharmacological inactivation does not support a unique causal role for intraparietal sulcus in the discrimination of visual number by DeWind, Nicholas K, Peng, Jiyun, Luo, Andrew, Brannon, Elizabeth M, Platt, Michael L

“…The "number sense" describes the intuitive ability to quantify without counting. Single neuron recordings in non-human primates and functional imaging in…”
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Social complexity predicts transitive reasoning in prosimian primates by MacLean, Evan L., Merritt, Dustin J., Brannon, Elizabeth M.

“…Transitive inference is a form of deductive reasoning that has been suggested as one cognitive mechanism by which animals could learn the many relationships…”
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Children do not exhibit ambiguity aversion despite intact familiarity bias by Li, Rosa, Brannon, Elizabeth M, Huettel, Scott A

“…The phenomenon of ambiguity aversion, in which risky gambles with known probabilities are preferred over ambiguous gambles with unknown probabilities, has been…”
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Improving arithmetic performance with number sense training: An investigation of underlying mechanism by Park, Joonkoo, Brannon, Elizabeth M.

“…•A causal influence from the approximate number system to math was tested in adults.•Non-symbolic approximate arithmetic training enhances exact symbolic…”
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