A Place for Zero in the Brain. Issue 8 (August 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rinaldi, Luca; Girelli, Luisa
• Is Part Of: Trends in cognitive sciences. Volume 20:Issue 8(2016)
• Page Start: 563
• Page End: 564
• Publication Date: 2016-08
• Subjects: zero numerosity -- number line -- parietofrontal system; Cognitive science -- Periodicals; Cognitive neuroscience -- Periodicals; 153.05
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.06.006
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-6613

Abstract

Abstract : 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.