Although few of us think of numbers in spatial terms 5, psychophysical evidence suggests that the mental representation of numbers has a spatial nature, possibly with a left–right orientation 6. First ...

Number lines can help you see where a number is compared to another number. You can create a number line that goes up to any number. You can then look at the part of the number line that's the most ...

In primates, number neurons in a dedicated parieto-frontal network encode the number of elements in a stimulus. Number neurons in the prefrontal cortex respond in an abstract manner, and their ...

When you estimate a number you decide approximately, or roughly, how big that number is. To estimate accurately, you need to have a good understanding of the value and order of numbers. A number line ...

The p-adics form an infinite collection of number systems based on prime numbers. They’re at the heart of modern number theory. The rational numbers are the most familiar numbers: 1, -5, ½, and every ...