What are we doing when we perceive numbers?. (15th December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jones, Max; Zahidi, Karim; Hutto, Daniel D.
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 44(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-12-15
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X21001114
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: Clarke and Beck rightly contend that the number sense allows us to directly perceive number. However, they unnecessarily assume a representationalist approach and incur a heavy theoretical cost by invoking "modes of presentation." We suggest that the relevant evidence is better explained by adopting a radical enactivist approach that avoids characterizing the approximate number system (ANS) as a system for representing number.