Psychology Colloquium: The Cognitive Neurobiology of Number Sense

College of Science
Date
Mar 20th, 2025 • 04:00pm
Location
Virtual
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360 Huntington Avenue West Village H 110 Boston, MA 02115
Speaker(s)
Dr. Giorgio Vallortigara

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What underlies the ability to deal with numbers and where did it come from? It has been hypothesized that our ability to accurately represent the number of objects in a set (numerousness), and to carry out numerical comparisons and arithmetic, developed from an evolutionarily conserved system for approximating numerical magnitude. Non-symbolic number cognition based on an approximate sense of magnitude has been documented in a variety of species. However, we know little about its origins (i.e., to what extent experience would shape it) and of its neural and molecular bases.

Speakers

Dr. Giorgio Vallortigara
Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Animal Cognition and Neuroscience Laboratory at the Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences
University of Trento, Italy
Date
Mar 20th, 2025 • 04:00pm
Location
Virtual
Join us on Zoom Here
360 Huntington Avenue West Village H 110 Boston, MA 02115
Speaker(s)
Dr. Giorgio Vallortigara

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