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Temporal and spatial enumeration processes in the primate parietal cortexAndreas Nieder
Primate NeuroCognition Laboratory, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Department of Cognitive Neurology, University of Tubingen, Otfried Muller Strasse 27, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Science 313:1431-5. 2006..These data suggest distinct neural processing stages for different numerical formats, but also a final convergence of the segregated information to form most abstract quantity representations...
Coding of abstract quantity by 'number neurons' of the primate brainAndreas Nieder
Animal Physiology, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076, Tubingen, Germany
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 199:1-16. 2013....
Supramodal numerosity selectivity of neurons in primate prefrontal and posterior parietal corticesAndreas Nieder
Animal Physiology, Institute of Neurobiology, University Tübingen, Tubingen 72076, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:11860-5. 2012..The finding of neurons responding to numerosity irrespective of the sensory modality supports the idea of a nonverbal, supramodal neuronal code of numerical quantity in the primate brain...- Representation of number in the brainAndreas Nieder
Department of Animal Physiology, University of Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Annu Rev Neurosci 32:185-208. 2009.... - Prefrontal cortex and the evolution of symbolic referenceAndreas Nieder
Department of Animal Physiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Curr Opin Neurobiol 19:99-108. 2009.... - A labeled-line code for small and large numerosities in the monkey prefrontal cortexAndreas Nieder
Department of Cognitive Neurology, Primate NeuroCognition Laboratory, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
J Neurosci 27:5986-93. 2007..Our findings also emphasize that the manner in which neurons encode and maintain magnitude information may depend on the precise task at hand as well as the type of magnitude to represent and memorize... - Counting on neurons: the neurobiology of numerical competenceAndreas Nieder
Primate NeuroCognition Laboratory, Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tubingen, Hoppe Seyler Strasse 3, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Nat Rev Neurosci 6:177-90. 2005..Neural representations of numerical information can engage extensive cerebral networks, but the posterior parietal cortex and the prefrontal cortex are the key structures in primates... - The number domain- can we count on parietal cortex?Andreas Nieder
Primate NeuroCognition Laboratory, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Department of Cognitive Neurology, University of Tuebingen, Otfried Mueller Str 27, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
Neuron 44:407-9. 2004..Two recent studies by Shuman and Kanwisher and by Piazza et al. published in this issue of Neuron tested this assumption...with quite different results... - Analog numerical representations in rhesus monkeys: evidence for parallel processingAndreas Nieder
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:889-901. 2004..The behavioral results are compared to single-cell recordings from the prefrontal cortex in the same subjects. Models for numerosity discrimination that may account for these results are discussed... - A parieto-frontal network for visual numerical information in the monkeyAndreas Nieder
Picower Center for Learning and Memory, and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, RIKEN Massachusetts Institute of Technology Neuroscience Research Center, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:7457-62. 2004..This finding suggests a parieto-frontal network for numerosity in monkeys and establishes homologies between the monkey and human brain... - Stereoscopic vision: solving the correspondence problemAndreas Nieder
Primate NeuroCognition Laboratory, Department of Cognitive Neurology, University of Tuebingen, Hoppe Seyler Str 3, Germany
Curr Biol 13:R394-6. 2003..False binocular matches, however, are discarded at the apex of the visual pathway: the activity of neurons in the primate inferior temporal cortex correlates directly with conscious depth perception... - Contributions of primate prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices to length and numerosity representationOana Tudusciuc
Department of Animal Physiology, Institute of Zoology, University of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
J Neurophysiol 101:2984-94. 2009.... - Coding of cognitive magnitude: compressed scaling of numerical information in the primate prefrontal cortexAndreas Nieder
Picower Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN MIT Neuroscience Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Neuron 37:149-57. 2003..These results suggest that certain cognitive and perceptual/sensory representations share the same fundamental mechanisms and neural coding schemes... - Numerical rule coding in the prefrontal, premotor, and posterior parietal cortices of macaquesDaniela Vallentin
Animal Physiology, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
J Neurosci 32:6621-30. 2012..Moreover, the results emphasize that the coding capacities of neurons in association cortical areas are far more dynamic depending on task demands than previously thought... - Complementary contributions of prefrontal neuron classes in abstract numerical categorizationIlka Diester
Department of Animal Physiology, Institute for Zoology, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
J Neurosci 28:7737-47. 2008..These findings favor feedforward mechanisms subserving cognitive categorization and help to clarify cellular interactions in PFC microcircuits... - Active encoding of decisions about stimulus absence in primate prefrontal cortex neuronsKatharina Merten
Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:6289-94. 2012..This mechanism may allow the brain to "buffer" a decision in a nonmovement-related framework... - Tuning to non-symbolic proportions in the human frontoparietal cortexSimon N Jacob
Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, Tubingen, Germany
Eur J Neurosci 30:1432-42. 2009..Our results argue that abstract concepts of both absolute and relative number are deeply rooted in the primate brain as fundamental determinants of higher-level numerical cognition... - Representations of visual proportions in the primate posterior parietal and prefrontal corticesDaniela Vallentin
Institute of Neurobiology, Animal Physiology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Eur J Neurosci 32:1380-7. 2010..In agreement with human studies, our study shows that proportions are represented in the fronto-parietal network that has already been implicated for absolute magnitude processing... - Basic mathematical rules are encoded by primate prefrontal cortex neuronsSylvia Bongard
Animal Physiology, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:2277-82. 2010..We speculate that these neuronal circuits in the monkey lateral PFC could readily have been adopted in the course of primate evolution for syntactic processing of numbers in formalized mathematical systems... - Compressed scaling of abstract numerosity representations in adult humans and monkeysKatharina Merten
University of Tuebingen, Germany
J Cogn Neurosci 21:333-46. 2009..This may indicate a gradual transformation of a logarithmic to linear magnitude scale in human adults as the result of a cultural transformation process during the course of mathematical education... - Neural correlates of categories and conceptsEarl K Miller
Picower Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN MIT Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 13:198-203. 2003..Recent studies have revealed their neural correlates in various cortical areas of the non-human primate brain... 
Semantic associations between signs and numerical categories in the prefrontal cortexIlka Diester
Primate NeuroCognition Laboratory, Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
PLoS Biol 5:e294. 2007..These findings suggest a cardinal role of the prefrontal cortex in establishing semantic associations between signs and abstract categories, a cognitive precursor that may ultimately give rise to symbolic thinking in linguistic humans...- Comparison of length judgments and the Müller-Lyer illusion in monkeys and humansOana Tudusciuc
Animal Physiology, Institute for Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076, Tubingen, Germany
Exp Brain Res 207:221-31. 2010.... - Notation-independent representation of fractions in the human parietal cortexSimon N Jacob
Department of Animal Physiology, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, Tubingen, Germany
J Neurosci 29:4652-7. 2009..Our results have implications for mathematical education, which may be tailored to better harness our ability to access automatically a composite quantitative measure... - Numerical values leave a semantic imprint on associated signs in monkeysIlka Diester
University of Tubingen, Germany
J Cogn Neurosci 22:174-83. 2010..This provides evidence for a precursor of the human number symbol knowledge... - Representation of the quantity of visual items in the primate prefrontal cortexAndreas Nieder
Picower Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN MIT Neuroscience Research Center, and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Science 297:1708-11. 2002..A mechanism that extracts the quantity of visual field items could contribute to general numerical ability... - Neuronal population coding of continuous and discrete quantity in the primate posterior parietal cortexOana Tudusciuc
Primate NeuroCognition Laboratory, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Department of Cognitive Neurology, University of Tubingen, Otfried Muller Strasse 27, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:14513-8. 2007..Thus, different information-carrying processes of partly intermingled neuronal networks in the parietal lobe seem to encode various forms of abstract quantity... - The ABC of cardinal and ordinal number representationsSimon N Jacob
Primate NeuroCognition Laboratory, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Department of Cognitive Neurology, University of Tubingen, Otfried Müller Str 27, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Trends Cogn Sci 12:41-3. 2008..In terms of neural processing, quantity and rank might just be two sides of the same coin... - Relating magnitudes: the brain's code for proportionsSimon N Jacob
Animal Physiology, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tü bingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
Trends Cogn Sci 16:157-66. 2012..These novel findings suggest a sense for ratios that grants the brain automatic access to proportions independently of language and the format of presentation... - Behavioral and prefrontal representation of spatial proportions in the monkeyDaniela Vallentin
Department of Animal Physiology, Institute of Zoology, University of Tuebingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
Curr Biol 18:1420-5. 2008..These results support the hypothesis that nonhuman primates can judge proportions and utilize the underlying information in behaviorally relevant situations...