Innate numerosity perception and its roots in early vision

Ben Harvey

doi:10.1093/cercor/bhaf016

Innate numerosity perception and its roots in early vision

Ben Harvey^*

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Abstract

In the current issue of Cerebral Cortex, Lorenzi et al. (2025) discuss evidence for an innate sense of object number (numerosity) in the brains of many species, without the need for visual experience. This commentary discusses how numerosity processing can be understood as an innate property of vision, derived from the spatial frequency-based representation of images in the visual systems of many animals.

Original language	English
Article number	bhaf016
Number of pages	3
Journal	Cerebral Cortex
Volume	35
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf016
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2025

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© The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

Funding

This work was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (452.17.012 to B.M.H.).

Funders	Funder number
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	452.17.012

Keywords

animals
numerosity
spatial frequency
vision
visual cortex

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