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  1. Number adaptation: A critical look.Sami R. Yousif, Sam Clarke & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2024 - Cognition 249 (105813):1-17.
    It is often assumed that adaptation — a temporary change in sensitivity to a perceptual dimension following exposure to that dimension — is a litmus test for what is and is not a “primary visual attribute”. Thus, papers purporting to find evidence of number adaptation motivate a claim of great philosophical significance: That number is something that can be seen in much the way that canonical visual features, like color, contrast, size, and speed, can. Fifteen years after its reported discovery, (...)
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    Modeling the approximate number system to quantify the contribution of visual stimulus features.Nicholas K. DeWind, Geoffrey K. Adams, Michael L. Platt & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2015 - Cognition 142 (C):247-265.
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  3. Seven reasons to (still) doubt the existence of number adaptation: A rebuttal to Burr et al. and Durgin.Sami R. Yousif, Sam Clarke & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2025 - Cognition 254 (105939):1-6.
    Does the visual system adapt to number? For more than fifteen years, most have assumed that the answer is an unambiguous “yes”. Against this prevailing orthodoxy, we recently took a critical look at the phenomenon, questioning its existence on both empirical and theoretical grounds, and providing an alternative explanation for extant results (the old news hypothesis). We subsequently received two critical responses. Burr, Anobile, and Arrighi rejected our critiques wholesale, arguing that the evidence for number adaptation remains overwhelming. Durgin questioned (...)
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    (1 other version)Beyond the number domain.Jessica F. Cantlon, Michael L. Platt & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2009 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13 (2):83-91.
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    Young Children Intuitively Divide Before They Recognize the Division Symbol.Emily Szkudlarek, Haobai Zhang, Nicholas K. DeWind & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2022 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16.
    Children bring intuitive arithmetic knowledge to the classroom before formal instruction in mathematics begins. For example, children can use their number sense to add, subtract, compare ratios, and even perform scaling operations that increase or decrease a set of dots by a factor of 2 or 4. However, it is currently unknown whether children can engage in a true division operation before formal mathematical instruction. Here we examined the ability of 6- to 9-year-old children and college students to perform symbolic (...)
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    Improving arithmetic performance with number sense training: An investigation of underlying mechanism.Joonkoo Park & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2014 - Cognition 133 (1):188-200.
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    The development of ordinal numerical knowledge in infancy.Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2002 - Cognition 83 (3):223-240.
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    Failure to replicate the benefit of approximate arithmetic training for symbolic arithmetic fluency in adults.Emily Szkudlarek, Joonkoo Park & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2021 - Cognition 207 (C):104521.
    Previous research reported that college students' symbolic addition and subtraction fluency improved after training with non-symbolic, approximate addition and subtraction. These findings were widely interpreted as strong support for the hypothesis that the Approximate Number System (ANS) plays a causal role in symbolic mathematics, and that this relation holds into adulthood. Here we report four experiments that fail to find evidence for this causal relation. Experiment 1 examined whether the approximate arithmetic training effect exists within a shorter training period than (...)
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    Increasing entropy reduces perceived numerosity throughout the lifespan.Chuyan Qu, Nicholas K. DeWind & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2022 - Cognition 225 (C):105096.
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    Number sense biases children's area judgments.Rachel C. Tomlinson, Nicholas K. DeWind & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2020 - Cognition 204 (C):104352.
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    Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) map number onto space.Caroline B. Drucker & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2014 - Cognition 132 (1):57-67.
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    Do monkeys think in metaphors? Representations of space and time in monkeys and humans.Dustin J. Merritt, Daniel Casasanto & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2010 - Cognition 117 (2):191-202.
  13. Number bias for the discrimination of large visual sets in infancy.Elizabeth M. Brannon, Sara Abbott & Donna J. Lutz - 2004 - Cognition 93 (2):B59-B68.
  14. The evolution and ontogeny of ordinal numerical ability.Elizabeth M. Brannon & Herbert S. Terrace - 2002 - In Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen & Gordon M. Burghardt (eds.), The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition. MIT Press. pp. 197--204.
     
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    Significant Inter-Test Reliability across Approximate Number System Assessments.Nicholas K. DeWind & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2016 - Frontiers in Psychology 7.
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    (1 other version)Monkeys match and tally quantities across senses.Kerry E. Jordan, Evan L. MacLean & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2008 - Cognition 108 (3):617-625.
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    Evidence against continuous variables driving numerical discrimination in infancy.Ariel Starr & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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    (1 other version)Intersensory redundancy accelerates preverbal numerical competence.Kerry E. Jordan, Sumarga H. Suanda & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2008 - Cognition 108 (1):210-221.
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    Direct and rapid encoding of numerosity in the visual stream.Joonkoo Park, Nick K. DeWind & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2017 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40.
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    Neurocognitive Development of Risk Aversion from Early Childhood to Adulthood.David J. Paulsen, R. McKell Carter, Michael L. Platt, Scott A. Huettel & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2011 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5.
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    Approximate Arithmetic Training Improves Informal Math Performance in Low Achieving Preschoolers.Emily Szkudlarek & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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    How to interpret cognitive training studies: A reply to Lindskog & Winman.Joonkoo Park & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2016 - Cognition 150 (C):247-251.
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    Numerical abstraction: It ain't broke.Jessica F. Cantlon, Sara Cordes, Melissa E. Libertus & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2009 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (3-4):331-332.
    The dual-code proposal of number representation put forward by Cohen Kadosh & Walsh (CK&W) accounts for only a fraction of the many modes of numerical abstraction. Contrary to their proposal, robust data from human infants and nonhuman animals indicate that abstract numerical representations are psychologically primitive. Additionally, much of the behavioral and neural data cited to support CK&W's proposal is, in fact, neutral on the issue of numerical abstraction.
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    Children do not exhibit ambiguity aversion despite intact familiarity bias.Rosa Li, Elizabeth M. Brannon & Scott A. Huettel - 2014 - Frontiers in Psychology 5:120588.
    The phenomenon of ambiguity aversion, in which risky gambles with known probabilities are preferred over ambiguous gambles with unknown probabilities, has been thoroughly documented in adults but never measured in children. Here, we use two distinct tasks to investigate ambiguity preferences of children (8- to 9-year-olds) and a comparison group of adults (19- to 27-year-olds). Across three separate measures, we found evidence for significant ambiguity aversion in adults but not in children and for greater ambiguity aversion in adults compared to (...)
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    The Acuity and Manipulability of the ANS Have Separable Influences on Preschoolers’ Symbolic Math Achievement.Ariel Starr, Rachel C. Tomlinson & Elizabeth M. Brannon - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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