The Neural Basis of the Weber-Fechner Law: a Logarithmic Mental Number Line

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Journal Trends Cogn Sci

Date 2003 Apr 15

PMID 12691758

Citations 172

Authors

Stanislas Dehaene

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Abstract

The recent discovery of number neurons allows for a dissection of the neuronal implementation of number representation. In a recent article, Nieder and Miller demonstrate a neural correlate of Weber's law, and thus resolve a classical debate in psychophysics: the mental number line seems to be logarithmic rather than linear.

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