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Concrete magnitudes: From numbers to time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2009

Christine M. Falter ,
Valdas Noreika ,
Julian Kiverstein  and
Bruno Mölder
Christine M. Falter
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom. Christine.Falter@psych.ox.ac.ukhttp://www.alice-dsl.net/subjective.time/index.html
Valdas Noreika
Affiliation:
Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Turku 20014, Finland. valnor@utu.fi
Julian Kiverstein
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AD, Scotland, United Kingdom. j.kiverstein@ed.ac.uk
Bruno Mölder
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51003, Estonia. bruno.moelder@ut.eehttp://moelder.wordpress.com
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Abstract

Cohen Kadosh & Walsh (CK&W) present convincing evidence indicating the existence of notation-specific numerical representations in parietal cortex. We suggest that the same conclusions can be drawn for a particular type of numerical representation: the representation of time. Notation-dependent representations need not be limited to number but may also be extended to other magnitude-related contents processed in parietal cortex (Walsh 2003).

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 3-4 , August 2009 , pp. 335 - 336
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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