Abstract:
:Humans and animals have a "number sense," an innate capability to intuitively assess the number of visual items in a set, its numerosity. This capability implies that mechanisms to extract numerosity indwell the brain's visual system, which is primarily concerned with visual object recognition. Here, we show that network units tuned to abstract numerosity, and therefore reminiscent of real number neurons, spontaneously emerge in a biologically inspired deep neural network that was merely trained on visual object recognition. These numerosity-tuned units underlay the network's number discrimination performance that showed all the characteristics of human and animal number discriminations as predicted by the Weber-Fechner law. These findings explain the spontaneous emergence of the number sense based on mechanisms inherent to the visual system.
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Sci Advjournal_title
Science advancesauthors
Nasr K,Viswanathan P,Nieder Adoi
10.1126/sciadv.aav7903subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-05-08 00:00:00pages
eaav7903issue
5issn
2375-2548pii
aav7903journal_volume
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