
Space, Time and Number in the Brain
Searching for the Foundations of Mathematical Thought
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Key Features
- 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
Readership
Attention and performance researchers from a variety of disciplines - basic neuroscience to psychology, developmental science, neuroimaging, neuropsychology and theoretical biology
Table of Contents
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 DisplaysSection 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 NumberSection 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 RepresentationSection 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
Product details
- No. of pages: 374
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2011
- Published: May 31, 2011
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780123859495
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123859488
About the Editors
Stanislas Dehaene
Affiliations and Expertise
Elizabeth Brannon
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