Evolutionary Foundations of the Approximate Number System

Space, Time and Number in the Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 207-224

  Brannon, Elizabeth M ^a   Merritt, Dustin J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385948-8.00014-1     Document Type: Chapter

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