Quantity without numbers and numbers without quantity in the parietal cortex

Quantity without numbers and numbers without quantity in the parietal cortex

A dominant view in numerical cognition is that processing the quantity indicated by numbers (e.g. deciding the larger between two numbers such as '12.07' or '15.02') relies on the intraparietal regions (IPS) of the cerebral cortex. However, it remains unclear whether the IPS could play a more general role in numerical cognition, for example in (1) quantity processing even with non-numerical sti...

Quantity Cognition: Numbers, Numerosity, Zero and Mathematics

Physical quantities differ from abstract numbers and mathematics, but recent results are revealing the neural representation of both: a new study demonstrates how an absence of quantity is transformed into a representation of zero as a number.

Clinical guidelines: quantity without quality.

Voting without Version Numbers

Voting protocols are widely used to provide mutual exclusion in distributed systems and to guarantee the consistency of replicated data in the presence of network partitions. Unfortunately, the most efficient voting protocols require fairly complex metadata to assert which replicas are up-to-date and to denote the replicas that belong to that set. We present a much simpler technique that does n...

Language: Life without Numbers

If your language did not have words for numbers, would you be able to think about numeric quantities? An Amazonian culture where number words are limited to one, two and many has provided new insights to the interaction between thought and language.