Spatial Intuition in Elementary Arithmetic: A Neurocomputational Account

Qi Chen and Tom Verguts

PLOS ONE, 2012, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-8

Abstract: Elementary arithmetic (e.g., addition, subtraction) in humans has been shown to exhibit spatial properties. Its exact nature has remained elusive, however. To address this issue, we combine two earlier models for parietal cortex: A model we recently proposed on number-space interactions and a modeling framework of parietal cortex that implements radial basis functions for performing spatial transformations. Together, they provide us with a framework in which elementary arithmetic is based on evolutionarily more basic spatial transformations, thus providing the first implemented instance of Dehaene and Cohen's recycling hypothesis.

Date: 2012
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