Multitudes are adaptable magnitudes in the estimation of number.

Behav Brain Sci

Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College,Swarthmore,PA

Published: January 2017

Visual number comparison does not require participants to choose a unit, whereas units are fundamental to the definition of number. Studies using magnitude estimation rather than comparison show that number perception is compressed dramatically past about 20 units. Even estimates of 5-20 items are increasingly susceptible to effects of visual adaptation, suggesting a rather narrow range in which subitizing-like categorization processes blend into greater reliance on adaptable magnitude information.

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