Research

How are numerical and non-numerical magnitudes related?

Persichetti, A. S., Aulet, L. S., Dilks, D. D., & Lourenco, S. F. (in prep). Conjoint and independent representations of numerosity and area in human intraparietal cortex. [poster]

Aulet, L. S. & Lourenco, S. F. (2021). Number and cumulative surface area are perceived holistically as integral dimensions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 145-156. [psyarxiv]

Lourenco, S. F., Aulet, L. S., Ayzenberg, V., Cheung, C. -N., & Holmes, K. J. (2017). Right idea, wrong magnitude system. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e177.

Number over evolution and the lifespan

Aulet, L. S., Chiu, V. C., Prichard, A., Spivak, M., Lourenco, S. F., & Berns, G. S. (2019). Canine sense of quantity: evidence for numerical ratio-dependent activation in parietotemporal cortex. Biology Letters, 15, 20190666.

Lourenco, S. F. & Aulet, L. S. (2019). Cross-magnitude interactions across development: Longitudinal support for a general magnitude system. Developmental Science, 22, e12707.

Lourenco, S. F., Cheung, C., & Aulet, L. S. (2018). Is visuospatial reasoning related to early mathematical development? A critical review. In: Henik A and Fias W, eds. Heterogeneity of Function in Numerical Cognition. San Diego: Academic Press, 2018: 177-209.


Mental number line

Aulet, L. S., Yousif, S. R, & Lourenco, S. F. (2021). Spatial-numerical associations from a novel paradigm support the Mental Number Line account. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Aulet, L. S. & Lourenco, S. F. (2018). The developing mental number line: Does its directionality relate to 5- to 7-year-old children’s mathematical abilities? Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1142.