Dissociable mechanisms of subitizing and counting: neuropsychological evidence from simultanagnosic patients.

Do people have to count to determine visual numerosity, or is there a fast “subitizing” procedure dedicated to small sets of 1-3 items? Numerosity naming time and errors were measured in 5 simultanagnosic patients who suffered from severe difficulties in serial counting. Although these patients made...

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Published in:Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception & Performance Vol. 20; pp. 958 - 976
Main Authors: Dehaene, Stanislas, Cohen, Laurent
Format: Article
Published: American Psychological Association October 1994
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