Space, Time and Number in the Brain

The study of mathematical cognition and the ways in which the ideas of space, time and number are encoded in brain circuitry has become a fundamental issue for neuroscience. How such encoding differs across cultures and educational level is of further interest in education and neuropsychology. This rapidly expanding field of research is overdue for an interdisciplinary volume such as this, which deals with the neurological and psychological foundations of human numeric capacity. A uniquely integrative work, this volume provides a much needed compilation of primary source material to researchers from basic neuroscience, psychology, developmental science, neuroimaging, neuropsychology and theoretical biology.

• The first comprehensive and authoritative volume dealing with neurological and psychological foundations of mathematical cognition
• Uniquely integrative volume at the frontier of a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field
• Features outstanding and truly international scholarship, with chapters written by leading experts in a variety of fields

Attention and performance researchers from a variety of disciplines - basic neuroscience to psychology, developmental science, neuroimaging, neuropsychology and theoretical biology

Section I Mental Magnitudes and their Transformations
1. Mental Magnitudes
2. Objects, Sets, and Ensembles
3. Attention Mechanisms for Counting in Stabilized and in Dynamic Displays

Section II Neural Codes for Space, Time and Number
4. A Manifold of Spatial Maps in the Brain
5. Temporal Neuronal Oscillations can Produce Spatial Phase Codes
6. Population Clocks
7. Discrete Neuroanatomical Substrates for Generating and Updating Temporal Expectations
8. The Neural Code for Number

Section III Shared Mechanisms for Space, Time and Number?
9. Synesthesia
10. How is Number Associated with Space? The Role of Working Memory
11. Neglect “Around the Clock”
12. Saccades Compress Space, Time, and Number*

Section IV Origins of Proto-Mathematical Intuitions
13. Origins of Spatial, Temporal, and Numerical Cognition
14. Evolutionary Foundations of the Approximate Number System
15. Origins and Development of Generalized Magnitude Representation

Section V Representational Change and Education
16. Foundational Numerical Capacities and the Origins of Dyscalculia
17. Neurocognitive Start-Up Tools for Symbolic Number Representations
18. Natural Number and Natural Geometry
19. Geometry as a Universal Mental Construction
20. How Languages Construct Time
21. Improving Low-Income Children’s Number Sense