Cognitive neuroscience: numerate neurons.
Whether the neuronal encoding of number is linear or logarithmic divides cognitive neuroscientists working on mathematical cognition. Recordings from the prefrontal cortex of the monkey support the logarithmic hypothesis. Similarities between number and the coding of other quantities are also beginning to become apparent.
Walsh
Vincent
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Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK. v.walsh@ucl.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology; D008433:Mathematics; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*