Be Smart - This Is Your Brain on Numbers (References)

Books

• Dehaene, S. (2011). The number sense: How the mind creates mathematics

• Butterworth, B. (2022). Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about Our Uniquely Mathematical Mind

Abstract number systems and "number sense"

• The two universal "number sense" systems for large and small quantities

  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00150/full 

  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15242690/ 

• Abstract number systems in human and animal brains

  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9720604/ 

• Ancient "counting bones"

  • https://www.researchgate.net/figure/the-Lebombo-bone-https-trueddotorgwordpresscom-blog-downloaded-10102015_fig1_333390516 

• The power of numerical discrimination (from 1871)

  • https://www.nature.com/articles/003281a0 

• How we determine "visual number"

  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1418556?origin=crossref 

  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03204275 

• Large number bias and why we can't judge "random" number sequences

  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20382625/ 

  • https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03207272.pdf 

• Evidence for a "mental number line"

  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17678639/ 

• Overestimating small magnitudes and underestimating large magnitudes

  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21767042/ 

Number sense in babies and young children

• Addition and subtraction in newborns

  • https://www.nature.com/articles/358749a0 

• Infants can determin eabstract numbers

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700913/ 

Number sense in non-human animals

• Number sense across the animal kingdom

  • https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/224/6/jeb218289/237916/Neuroethology-of-number-sense-across-the-animal 

• Number sense in monkeys

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1690599/ 

• Number systems in fish

  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-008-0140-9 

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3280231/ 

• Counting in crows

  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0984 

• Honeybees counting landmarks

  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0003347295801634

• Evidence for counting in insects

  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-008-0159-y 

• Number sense and defense against intruders in chimpanzees

  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347200917068