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From the Vault: The Origins of Numeracy

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Is There a Human Number Sense?

There is research also in human babies for evidence of a biologically endowed number sense that is not learned through culture. Brain imaging shows similarities between what happens when non human animals and babies process quantities in the brain, and when adult humans do it. And so neither would argue that the similarity in the biological substraiht here, points to an innate biological capacity that you've got some number meet.

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