title: A Place for Zero in the Brain.
abstract: It has long been thought that the primary cognitive and neural systems responsible for processing numerosities are not predisposed to encode empty sets (i.e., numerosity zero). A new study challenges this view by demonstrating that zero is translated into an abstract quantity along the numerical continuum by the primate parietofrontal magnitude system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; Milan Center for Neuroscience, Milano, Italy. Electronic address: l.rinaldi2@campus.unimib.it.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rinaldi
authors.affiliation: Milan Center for Neuroscience, Milano, Italy; Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Luisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Girelli
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D006801:Humans; D055641:Mathematical Concepts; D011323:Primates
keywords: number line; parietofrontal system; zero numerosity