Maria Loconsole

TL;DR: The data show that numerosity-selective neuronal responses are spontaneously present in the distinct endbrains of diverge vertebrate taxa, and suggests that endbrain circuitries that evolved based on convergent evolution, such as the avian endbrain, give rise to the same numerosity code.

TL;DR: The results suggest that in some cases, the limits reported for numerical performance in animals do not depend on cognitive limitations but on attentional or motivational factors, which can be overcome employing simple procedural adjustments.

TL;DR: The results showed the capability of black garden ants to code apparently redundant contextual information and to create and rely on conditional relationships between the information available and it is argued that future studies should deepen the inquiry on the timing and progression of multi-modal cue learning.

TL;DR: In a previous study as mentioned in this paper, we found that Jays hide food caches, steal them from conspecifics and use tactics to minimize cache theft, and are sensitive to the content of their own caches, retrieving items depending on their preferences.

TL;DR: The results support the claim that numerical discrimination in 3 vs 4 comparison benefits from the presence of distinctive features that enhance object individuation due to individual processing and suggest that in humans similar strategies aimed at improving performance at the non-symbolic level may have positive effects on symbolic mathematical abilities.