A Place for Zero in the Brain

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• 作者：Luca Rinaldi¹ ; ² ; ^{l.rinaldi2@campus.unimib.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Luisa Girelli² ; ³
• 关键词：zero numerosity ; number line ; parietofrontal system
• 刊名：Trends in Cognitive Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：20
• 期：8
• 页码：563-564
• 全文大小：252 K

文摘

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.