The Evolutionary History of Brains for Numbers

Visual number sense in untrained deep neural networks

(2021) Gwangsu Kim et al.   Science Advances

Neural code of motor planning and execution during goal-directed movements in crows

(2021) Paul Rinnert et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Cellular transcriptomics reveals evolutionary identities of songbird vocal circuits

(2021) Bradley M. Colquitt et al.   SCIENCE

Format-dependent and format-independent representation of sequential and simultaneous numerosity in the crow endbrain

(2020) Helen M. Ditz et al.   Nature Communications

The Adaptive Value of Numerical Competence

(2020) Andreas Nieder   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Response to change in the number of visual stimuli in zebrafish:A behavioural and molecular study

(2020) Andrea Messina et al.   Scientific Reports

Changes in Wnt-Dependent Neuronal Morphology Underlie the Anatomical Diversification of Neocortical Homologs in Amniotes

(2020) Tadashi Nomura et al.   Cell Reports

How intelligent is a cephalopod? Lessons from comparative cognition

(2020) Alexandra K. Schnell et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A Sensorimotor Numerosity System

(2020) Giovanni Anobile et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Deconstructing cortical folding: genetic, cellular and mechanical determinants

(2019) Cristina Llinares-Benadero et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The insect central complex and the neural basis of navigational strategies

(2019) Anna Honkanen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Number detectors spontaneously emerge in a deep neural network designed for visual object recognition

(2019) Khaled Nasr et al.   Science Advances

Honeybees use absolute rather than relative numerosity in number discrimination

(2019) Maria Bortot et al.   Biology Letters

Evolution of the Chordate Telencephalon

(2019) Steven D. Briscoe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An Insect’s Sense of Number

(2019) Martin Giurfa   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Neuronal Correlates of Spatial Working Memory in the Endbrain of Crows

(2019) Paul Rinnert et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Surpassing the subitizing threshold: appetitive–aversive conditioning improves discrimination of numerosities in honeybees

(2019) Scarlett R. Howard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Canine sense of quantity: evidence for numerical ratio-dependent activation in parietotemporal cortex

(2019) Lauren S. Aulet et al.   Biology Letters

How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?

(2018) Nigel E. Stork   Annual Review of Entomology

Neocortical Association Cell Types in the Forebrain of Birds and Alligators

(2018) Steven D. Briscoe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Neurons in the Endbrain of Numerically Naive Crows Spontaneously Encode Visual Numerosity

(2018) Lysann Wagener et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Do the right thing: neural network mechanisms of memory formation, expression and update in Drosophila

(2018) Paola Cognigni et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Evolution of pallium, hippocampus, and cortical cell types revealed by single-cell transcriptomics in reptiles

(2018) Maria Antonietta Tosches et al.   SCIENCE

Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees

(2018) Scarlett R. Howard et al.   SCIENCE

Species-Specific Mechanisms of Neuron Subtype Specification Reveal Evolutionary Plasticity of Amniote Brain Development

(2018) Tadashi Nomura et al.   Cell Reports

Brain areas associated with numbers and calculations in children: Meta-analyses of fMRI studies

(2018) Marie Arsalidou et al.   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Single Neurons in the Human Brain Encode Numbers

(2018) Esther F. Kutter et al.   NEURON

Structuring of Abstract Working Memory Content by Fronto-parietal Synchrony in Primate Cortex

(2018) Simon Nikolas Jacob et al.   NEURON

Breakdown of brain–body allometry and the encephalization of birds and mammals

(2018) Masahito Tsuboi et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Continuous and discrete quantity discrimination in tortoises

(2018) Andrea Gazzola et al.   Biology Letters

Convergent evolution of bilaterian nerve cords

(2017) José M. Martín-Durán et al.   NATURE

Representation of different exact numbers of prey by a spider-eating predator

(2017) Fiona R. Cross et al.   Interface Focus

From “sense of number” to “sense of magnitude”: The role of continuous magnitudes in numerical cognition

(2016) Tali Leibovich et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Gene evolution and gene expression after whole genome duplication in fish: the PhyloFish database

(2016) Jeremy Pasquier et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Neuronal Representation of Numerosity Zero in the Primate Parieto-Frontal Number Network

(2016) Araceli Ramirez-Cardenas et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Airborne Acoustic Perception by a Jumping Spider

(2016) Paul S. Shamble et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sensory and Working Memory Representations of Small and Large Numerosities in the Crow Endbrain

(2016) Helen M. Ditz et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The neuronal code for number

(2016) Andreas Nieder   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain

(2016) Seweryn Olkowicz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Representing Something Out of Nothing: The Dawning of Zero

(2016) Andreas Nieder   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Cognition without Cortex

(2016) Onur Güntürkün et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Comparative Connectomics

(2016) Martijn P. van den Heuvel et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Relative versus absolute numerical representation in fish: Can guppies represent “fourness”?

(2015) Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Differential Impact of Behavioral Relevance on Quantity Coding in Primate Frontal and Parietal Neurons

(2015) Pooja Viswanathan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Central-Complex Control of Movement in the Freely Walking Cockroach

(2015) Joshua P. Martin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cross-Modal Associative Mnemonic Signals in Crow Endbrain Neurons

(2015) Felix W. Moll et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Olfactory learning skews mushroom body output pathways to steer behavioral choice in Drosophila

(2015) David Owald et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The gyri of the octopus vertical lobe have distinct neurochemical identities

(2015) Shuichi Shigeno et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

The vertical lobe of cephalopods: an attractive brain structure for understanding the evolution of advanced learning and memory systems

(2015) T. Shomrat et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

The octopus genome and the evolution of cephalopod neural and morphological novelties

(2015) Caroline B. Albertin et al.   NATURE

Avian Models for Human Cognitive Neuroscience: A Proposal

(2015) Nicola S. Clayton et al.   NEURON

Neurocognitive Architecture of Working Memory

(2015) Johan Eriksson et al.   NEURON

Evolutionarily conserved mechanisms for the selection and maintenance of behavioural activity

(2015) V. G. Fiore et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neurons selective to the number of visual items in the corvid songbird endbrain

(2015) Helen M. Ditz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Associative learning rapidly establishes neuronal representations of upcoming behavioral choices in crows

(2015) Lena Veit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neural coding underlying the cue preference for celestial orientation

(2015) Basil el Jundi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Representation of the Numerosity ‘zero’ in the Parietal Cortex of the Monkey

(2015) Sumito Okuyama et al.   Scientific Reports

Numerical discrimination by frogs (Bombina orientalis)

(2014) G. Stancher et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Nephila clavipes spiders (Araneae: Nephilidae) keep track of captured prey counts: testing for a sense of numerosity in an orb-weaver

(2014) Rafael L. Rodríguez et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Visual Perception in the Brain of a Jumping Spider

(2014) Gil Menda et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The insect mushroom body, an experience-dependent recoding device

(2014) Randolf Menzel   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-PARIS

A Systematic Nomenclature for the Insect Brain

(2014) Kei Ito et al.   NEURON

Complementary Roles for Primate Frontal and Parietal Cortex in Guarding Working Memory from Distractor Stimuli

(2014) Simon Nikolas Jacob et al.   NEURON

Numerical acuity of fish is improved in the presence of moving targets, but only in the subitizing range

(2013) Christian Agrillo et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

One, two, three, four, or is there something more? Numerical discrimination in day-old domestic chicks

(2013) Rosa Rugani et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Organization and Functional Roles of the Central Complex in the Insect Brain

(2013) Keram Pfeiffer et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Relative quantity judgments in the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) and the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

(2013) José Z. Abramson et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Representation of Abstract Quantitative Rules Applied to Spatial and Numerical Magnitudes in Primate Prefrontal Cortex

(2013) A.-K. Eiselt et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Neuronal correlates of a visual "sense of number" in primate parietal and prefrontal cortices

(2013) P. Viswanathan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large-scale network organization in the avian forebrain: a connectivity matrix and theoretical analysis

(2013) Murray Shanahan et al.   Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

The role of numerical competence in a specialized predatory strategy of an araneophagic spider

(2012) Ximena J. Nelson et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Putting the elephant back in the herd: elephant relative quantity judgments match those of other species

(2012) Bonnie M. Perdue et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Numerical Rule Coding in the Prefrontal, Premotor, and Posterior Parietal Cortices of Macaques

(2012) D. Vallentin et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Supramodal numerosity selectivity of neurons in primate prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices

(2012) A. Nieder   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Numerical assessment and individual call discrimination by wild spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta

(2011) Sarah Benson-Amram et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The dorsal pallium in zebrafish, Danio rerio (Cyprinidae, Teleostei)

(2011) Thomas Mueller et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Visual place learning in Drosophila melanogaster

(2011) Tyler A. Ofstad et al.   NATURE

Pigeons on Par with Primates in Numerical Competence

(2011) D. Scarf et al.   SCIENCE

Profiling by Image Registration Reveals Common Origin of Annelid Mushroom Bodies and Vertebrate Pallium

(2010) Raju Tomer et al.   CELL

Quantity discrimination in salamanders

(2010) P. Krusche et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Deficits in Action Selection Based on Numerical Information After Inactivation of the Posterior Parietal Cortex in Monkeys

(2010) Hiromasa Sawamura et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Is 2+2=4? Meta-analyses of brain areas needed for numbers and calculations

(2010) Marie Arsalidou et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Large Number Discrimination by Mosquitofish

(2010) Christian Agrillo et al.   PLoS One

Basic mathematical rules are encoded by primate prefrontal cortex neurons

(2010) S. Bongard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THE NUMBER AND SIZES OF NERVE CELLS IN OCTOPUS

(2010) J. Z. YOUNG   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

The Forebrain of Actinopterygians Revisited

(2009) Rudolf Nieuwenhuys   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

On the Independent Origins of Complex Brains and Neurons

(2009) Leonid L. Moroz   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Nonsomatotopic Organization of the Higher Motor Centers in Octopus

(2009) Letizia Zullo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evidence for counting in insects

(2008) Marie Dacke et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Evolution of the central complex in the arthropod brain with respect to the visual system

(2008) Uwe Homberg   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Compressed Scaling of Abstract Numerosity Representations in Adult Humans and Monkeys

(2008) Katharina Merten et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Basic numerical processing in left intraparietal sulcus (IPS) acalculia

(2007) S ASHKENAZI et al.   CORTEX