Miller Lab alumnus, Andreas Nieder, continues his epic investigations into the neural basis of number sense.  Here, Viswanathan and Nieder show that training to make numerosity judgments sharpens neural selectivity in frontal cortex but not in parietal cortex.  It seems that the number representations in parietal cortex are innate whereas in the frontal cortex, they are learned.

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