Pre-verbal number sense common to monkeys, babies, college kids

Friday, February 13, 2009 - 15:35 in Psychology & Sociology

Basic arithmetic and "number sense" appear to be part of the shared evolutionary past of many primates; it's the use of language to explain abstractions that apparently takes human math to a higher level.

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