{"id":1887,"date":"2025-03-06T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T09:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2025-03-06T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T09:33:43","slug":"on-the-innate-ability-of-vertebrates-for-number-recognition-and-the-one-of-distinguishing-ratios-of-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"On the innate ability of vertebrates for number recognition and the one of distinguishing ratios of numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elena Lorenzi, Dmitry Kobylkov, Giorgio Vallortigara, <strong>Is there an innate sense of number in the brain?,<\/strong> Cerebral Cortex, Volume 35, Issue 2, February 2025, DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cercor\/bhaf004\">10.1093\/cercor\/bhaf004<\/a>.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The approximate number system or \u00absense of number\u00bb is a crucial, presymbolic mechanism enabling animals to estimate quantities, which is essential for survival in various contexts (eg estimating numerosities of social companions, prey, predators, and so on). Behavioral studies indicate that a sense of number is widespread across vertebrates and invertebrates. Specific brain regions such as the intraparietal sulcus and prefrontal cortex in primates, or equivalent areas in birds and fish, are involved in numerical estimation, and their activity is modulated by the ratio of quantities. Data gathered across species strongly suggest similar evolutionary pressures for number estimation pointing to a likely common origin, at least across vertebrates. On the other hand, few studies have investigated the origins of the sense of number. Recent findings, however, have shown that numerosity-selective neurons exist in newborn animals, such as domestic chicks and zebrafish, supporting the hypothesis of an innateness of the approximate number system. Control-rearing experiments on visually na\u00efve animals further support the notion that the sense of number is innate and does not need any specific instructive experience in order to be triggered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Lorenzi, Dmitry Kobylkov, Giorgio Vallortigara, Is there an innate sense of number in the brain?, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 35, <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1887\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psycho-physiological-bases-of-engineering","tag-numbers-in-the-brain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}